For Bloomsday 2021, RTÉ Drama On One presents James Joyce's masterpiece Dubliners in its entirety, for your listening pleasure - listen below to the fifteen short tales that comprise Joyce's panoramic vision of the capital and its denizens.
The Sisters
After the priest Father Flynn dies, a young boy who was close to him and his family, deals with his death superficially...
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An Encounter
Two schoolboys playing truant encounter a perverted, middle-aged man.
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Araby
A boy falls in love with the sister of his friend, but fails in his quest to buy her a worthy gift from the Araby bazaar...
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Eveline
A young woman weighs her decision to flee Ireland with a sailor...
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After The Race
College student Jimmy Doyle tries to fit in with his wealthy friends...
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Two Gallants
Two con men, Lenehan and Corley, find a maid who is willing to steal from her employer...
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The Boarding House
Mrs Mooney successfully manoeuvres her daughter Polly into an upwardly mobile marriage with her lodger Mr Doran...
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A Little Cloud
Little Chandler's dinner with his old friend Ignatius Gallaher casts fresh light on his own failed literary dreams. The story also reflects on Chandler's mood upon realising that his baby son has replaced him as the centre of his wife's affections...
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Counterparts
Farrington, a lumbering alcoholic scrivener, takes out his frustration in pubs and on his son Tom...
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Clay
The spinster Maria, a laundress, celebrates Halloween with her former foster child Joe Donnelly and his family...
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A Painful Case
Mr Duffy rebuffs Mrs Sinico, then, four years later, realises that he has condemned her to loneliness and death...
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Ivy Day In The Committee Room
Minor politicians fail to live up to the memory of Charles Stewart Parnell...
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A Mother
Mrs Kearney tries to win a place of pride for her daughter, Kathleen, in the Irish cultural movement, by starring her in a series of concerts, but ultimately fails...
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Grace
After Mr. Kernan injures himself falling down the stairs in a bar, his friends try to reform him through Catholicism...
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The Dead
Gabriel Conroy attends a party, and later, as he speaks with his wife, has an epiphany about the nature of life and death. At 15–16,000 words, this story has also been classified as a novella.
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