Meet Mrs. Kearney’s husband, a bootmaker on Ormond Quay:
James Joyce, “A Mother,” in Dubliners (1914).
Spoiler alert: Mrs. Kearney, manager of her daughter Kathleen’s budding musical career, driver of a hard bargain, does almost all the talking for her family. Kathleen speaks just twice. Mr. Kearney never says a word.
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Friday, June 10, 2022
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Makes me want to go back and read Dubliners.
Happy reading!
I hadn’t been all the way through for years. This is the first time I’ve appreciated “After the Race.”
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