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For Joyce's contemporaneous audience, the term "counterparts" could be expected to suggest (hand-written) duplicate copies of legal documents. [1] At the story's end, Farrington, “the man” is seen to be the "counterpart" of Mr. Alleyne, his superior at his workplace, since he abuses his child at home, just as Mr. Alleyne abuses him at the office.
Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. [1] It presents a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
Brinsley MacNamara (1890–1963, real name John Weldon, see The Valley of the Squinting Windows) Ian Macpherson (living) Deirdre Madden (born 1960) David Marcus (1924–2009) Charles Robert Maturin (1782–1824) Colum McCann (born 1965) Barry McCrea (born 1974) Frank McCourt (1930–2009) John McGahern (1934–2006) Christina McKenna (born 1957)
His collaboration with Alison McGhee called Someday spent two months on the New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Books. [14] [15] In addition to his children's books, Reynolds also created the award-winning animated short films, The Blue Shoe [16] and Living Forever, [17] as well as the film adaptations of his books The Dot [10] and ...
John Sheahan (born 19 May 1939) is an Irish musician and composer. He joined The Dubliners in 1964 and played with them until 2012 when The Dubliners' name was retired following the death of founding member Barney McKenna. [1] Sheahan is the last surviving member of the definitive lineup of the Dubliners.
"The Sisters" is a short story by James Joyce, the first of a series of short stories called Dubliners. Originally published in the Irish Homestead on 13 August 1904, "The Sisters" was Joyce's first published work of fiction.
Hugh Kenner found "Grace" "as subversive a story as any Dubliners contains: the story against which Irish Catholic opinion should have expended its animus". [2] According to Stanislaus Joyce , the three parts of the story recall the tripartite structure of Dante's Divine Comedy ("inferno-purgatorio-paradiso"). [ 3 ]
The Late Late Show Tribute is an album & film by The Dubliners recorded in 1987. The album charted at No.31 in Ireland.. The set originated as a special dedicated episode of RTE's The Late Late Show, hosted by Gay Byrne, on the occasion of the band's 25th anniversary year.