DublinersDubliners, one of the great short story collections in the English language, was first published in London on 15 June 1914 by Grant Richards, who had rejected the original set of twelve stories in September 1906; in the interim, according to Joyce, it was turned down by forty publishers. The author is his own best interlocutor: My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city

Joyce and Homer

Classic Irish Houses of the Middle Size

seeking meaning or reconciling with the past

medieval morality plays and the Mandukya Upanishads guide us along ancestral trails in dialogue with ‘the great tradition’

the house a cottage

and members of the Ard Comhairle

the harsh realities of a housing crisis

biographer and broadcaster

revealing a surprising

’ Moriarty’s work can be daunting

a UVF veteran and caretaker of the local big house

Renaissance