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- Parnell and His Times
- Frontispiece
- Parnell and His Times
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction
- Part I Parnell’s Ireland and Its Different Temporalities
- Part II After Parnell
- Chapter 9 Parnell and James Joyce’s Dubliners
- Chapter 10 ‘The Rhythm of Beauty’
- Chapter 11 ‘Ingenious Lovely Things’
- Chapter 12 Modernism in the Streets
- Chapter 13 Modernism, Belfast, and Early Twentieth-Century Ireland
- Chapter 14 Too Rough for Verse?
- Chapter 15 ‘Myth, Fact and Mystery’
- Chapter 16 The ‘Easter Rising’
- Chapter 17 Late Style Irish Style
- Index
Chapter 9 - Parnell and James Joyce’s Dubliners
Strategies of Failure
from Part II - After Parnell
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2020
- Parnell and His Times
- Frontispiece
- Parnell and His Times
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction
- Part I Parnell’s Ireland and Its Different Temporalities
- Part II After Parnell
- Chapter 9 Parnell and James Joyce’s Dubliners
- Chapter 10 ‘The Rhythm of Beauty’
- Chapter 11 ‘Ingenious Lovely Things’
- Chapter 12 Modernism in the Streets
- Chapter 13 Modernism, Belfast, and Early Twentieth-Century Ireland
- Chapter 14 Too Rough for Verse?
- Chapter 15 ‘Myth, Fact and Mystery’
- Chapter 16 The ‘Easter Rising’
- Chapter 17 Late Style Irish Style
- Index
Summary
Parnell haunts the city in James Joyce’s Dubliners. An admonishing ghost, he tantalizes its citizens with the abandoned dreams that follow Ireland’s rejection of their lost leader to the warnings and strictures of the Roman Catholic Church following his adultery with Katherine O’Shea. James Duffy, at the centre of the story A Painful Case, is one such individual, searching for his sexual, spiritual, and political solace. A devotee of classical music, he meets the married Mrs Emily Sinico at a concert. What develops shakes Duffy to his soul for he recoils from her physical show of affection. They separate. A short while later he reads of her suicide, intoxicated, throwing herself before a train. Throughout the story strange echoes and eerie parallels between the fall of Parnell and the fall of James Duffy deepen the confusion and tragedies of both men, and of the Ireland that shaped their connected fates.
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- Parnell and his Times , pp. 177 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020