Dubliners 100. 15 New Stories Inspired by the Original Dubliners

Oona Frawley: "The Boarding House" (and Elske Rahill: "A Mother") The original story is one of those in which Joyce lampoons a middle aged, managerial type of woman - the only kind of woman for whom he has little sympathy, in Dubliners. "C'mon baby make my dreams come true/Work me boy do the thing you do" is a good modernisation of "I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls" - and the clay on his shoes (picked up on the derelict Nama site surrounding Cherrywood Luas stop) is an impressive enough translation of the clay on the saucer - if not as readily meaningful. First we have the party for the 6th December, with its dialogue and chatter and array of Dublin types; then we have the interior story of Gabriel, of his desire for love and sex, ending with the frustration of that desire: the disappointed bridge, the poetic epiphany, absolutely typical of Dubliners in general. [...]a sense of continuity is evident.