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James Joyce’s Dubliners
“The book is not a collection of tourist impressions but an attempt to represent certain aspects of the life of one of the European capitals".Letters, II,109
Consider your reading of Dubliners, which is the most dominating
feature in Joyce’s portrait of the city?
1 2 3 4
7%
0%
36%
57%1. Politics2. Culture3. Religion4. Geography
Realism and Detail in Dubliners• Characters are sent
through the streets and avenues with such accuracy that the reader can imagine where they are and the route they are taking.
• Monuments, historical buildings, and famous are mentioned as characters pass by them.
The Mapping Dubliners Project! This is COOL!
Images Joyce Neglected to Depict
Is Dubliners truly Objective as Joyce intends?
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86%
14%
1. Yes2. No
VS
Dublin is considered
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0%
13%
0%
87%1. The largest city in the British Empire
2. The second largest city in the British Empire
3. The oldest city in the British Empire
4. Independent from the British Empire
Tensions Rise as Potatoes Die
How many people died as a direct result from the potato famine of
1845?
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7%
14%
29%
50%1. 250,0002. 500,0003. 1,000,0004. 2,000,000
Should a political figure lose office because he/she was involved with
an affair?
1 2
43%
57%
1. Yes2. No
The Rise of Irish Nationalism
Parnell is the subject of which of the following chapters?
1 2 3 4
14%
0%
86%
0%
1. “An Encounter”2. “Two Gallants”3. “Ivy Day in the
Committee Room”4. “Grace”
Joyce was a devout Catholic
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79%
21%
1. True2. False
What percent of inhabitants of Ireland were Catholic?
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25% 25%25%25%1. 25%2. 50%3. 60%4. 75%
What percent of children were considered uneducated leading up
to Joyce’s Dublin
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23%
31%
38%
8%
1. 25%2. 50%3. 60%4. 75%
Does a public education need to be secular?
1 2
75%
25%
1. Yes2. No
• Education privately funded so poor (3/4 of population) were uneducated or ill-educated
• Only 25—30% over age of 5 were educated, and they were predominately Protestant; mostly, the illiterate were Catholic and Gaelic speaking
Capturing the Essence of the City
* Joyce depicts Dublin’s culture through the world of literature, Irish customs and traditions, language and expressions, and the economical, social and political situation in Ireland.
Poverty and Prosperity in Ireland