The research topic for my final paper is the impact of English colonialism on the culture of Ireland. In my…
Araby: A timeless Coming of Age Story
I thought I’d do an image search for my favorite James Joyce story, Araby. Amidst the old drawings and photographs…
Galway, Gretta, and Gabriel
In Joyce’s “The Dead,” Galway is mentioned as the hometown of Gabriel’s wife, Gretta. Throughout the story, this place increasingly…
The North Wall as a Passage to Freedom
This week I explored James Joyce’s collection of short stories titled “Dubliners.” In my past few diary entries, I have…
A Tale of Two Cities: Portrayals of London and Dublin in “A Little Cloud”
As I was reading this week, I was very interested in the way that the inhabitants of Dublin in Dubliners…
The Road in “The Dead”
For this week’s virtual diary, I wanted to explore the route of a story I read a long time ago,…
A Moment of Introspection
I finished reading “The Dead” four days ago, and the concluding passage has not left my mind since: “Generous tears…
The Grandeur and Mysteriousness of Architecture
Joyce mentions St. Catherine’s in the story “Little Sisters” when stating that Reverend James Flynn served at the religious institution:…
Travel in 19th Dublin
If I summarize the context of Eveline, a piece of James Joyce, in one sentence, it would be…
Joyce and Loneliness
This week we read Dubliners by James Joyce, and one short story in particular titled A Painful Case is about…
