‘Dead, The’

Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, The, January, 2000 by ROBERT WELCH

‘Dead, The’, the final story in James Joyce's Dubliners (1914), written in 1907. Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta attend his aunt's annual Epiphany Night party. Gabriel, a literary journalist, is worried and self-conscious while his wife remembers a boy who died of love for her.

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