Contains stories that show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. Intro -- Contents -- General Introduction -- Introduction -- Works cited in Introduction and Notes -- A selection of other works -- Dubliners -- 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 [95] -- A Mother -- Grace [139] -- The Dead -- Notes to Dubliners.