Dubliners
Liffey city residents
Dubliners are people from Dublin, the capital city of Ireland.
The term often carries associations with the city's distinct character—its literary heritage, working-class neighborhoods, and particular accent and slang: The pub was full of Dubliners arguing about football.
James Joyce's short story collection *Dubliners* (1914) shaped how the term resonates in literary contexts.
Sudden profound insight
- paralysisLoss of muscle function
- gnomonSundial's shadow-casting projection
- simonyBuying church positions
- short storiesBrief prose narratives
Eveline · Clay · Grace · moribund · entrapment · stagnation · disillusionment · routine
Favoring contemporary approaches
- realismAccepting things as they are
- naturalismWorldview excluding the supernatural
- symbolismRepresenting concepts through images
- ironyMeaning opposite to words
ambiguity · narrative · prose · characterization · motif · theme · dialogue · setting
Overcrowded urban dwellings
- pubsCasual drinking establishments
- shopfrontsBusiness exteriors facing street
- quaysWaterfront mooring structures
- tramsRail-bound urban transit
gas lamps · parlours · boarding houses · churches · cemeteries · docks · markets · Georgian
Collected literary works volume
- short storiesBrief prose narratives
- fictionImagined narrative work
- talesSpoken or written narratives
- volumeAmount of space filled
compilation · editions · corpus · omnibus · series · cycle · vignettes · censorship
epiphany
Sudden profound insight
- paralysisLoss of muscle function
- gnomonSundial's shadow-casting projection
- simonyBuying church positions
short stories · Eveline · Clay · Grace · moribund · entrapment · stagnation · disillusionment · routine · frustration
modernism
Favoring contemporary approaches
- realismAccepting things as they are
- naturalismWorldview excluding the supernatural
- symbolismRepresenting concepts through images
irony · ambiguity · narrative · prose · characterization · motif · theme · dialogue · setting · subtext
tenements
Overcrowded urban dwellings
- pubsCasual drinking establishments
- shopfrontsBusiness exteriors facing street
- quaysWaterfront mooring structures
trams · gas lamps · parlours · boarding houses · churches · cemeteries · docks · markets · Georgian · cobblestones
anthology
Collected literary works volume
- short storiesBrief prose narratives
- fictionImagined narrative work
- talesSpoken or written narratives
volume · compilation · editions · corpus · omnibus · series · cycle · vignettes · censorship · publication
Liffey
Dublin's principal river
shamrock · craic · brogue · bodhran · fiddle · hurling · soda bread · Eire · Hibernia · blarney
- classicsHomer, Iliad, the Iliad, Odyssey, the Odyssey
- 1910s LiteratureEthan Frome, Howards End, Sons and Lovers, The Secret Garden, Pygmalion
- European City ResidentsParisians, Londoners, Romans, Berliners, Viennese
- Irish LiteratureJames Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Yeats, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett
- modernismPicasso, Matisse, Duchamp, Braque, Kandinsky
- Modernist ClassicsThe Great Gatsby, Ulysses, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waste Land