Dubliners

Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories written by James Joyce and published in 1914.

These stories realistically describe life for the lower and middle classes in Dublin at the turn of the 20th century. Joyce examines the mental, cultural, and social paralysis of the city’s inhabitants, including the pressures associated with British rule and the Catholic Church.

The stories were written during a period of cultural and political change, before the 1916 Easter Rising, the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, and the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. They reflect debates about nationalism, identity, and emigration.

The collection’s sequence moves from childhood through adolescence and adulthood toward public life, culminating in “The Dead.”

These are the stories included in the book:

• The Sisters
• An Encounter
• Araby
• Eveline
• After the Race
• Two Gallants
• The Boarding House
• A Little Cloud
• Counterparts
• Clay
• A Painful Case
• Ivy Day in the Committee Room
• A Mother
• Grace
• The Dead