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Dublin, 6 January 1904: the Feast of the Epiphany, also known as Women’s Christmas or Nollaig na mBan in Ireland. Gretta and Gabriel Conroy have travelled from Galway to attend an annual dinner party hosted by his aunts, the Morkan Sisters. As the house on Usher's Island fills with laughter, music and dancing, the worries and secrets of the guests interweave and overlap, like the chords and lyrics of a song, to culminate in a shocking confession by Gretta and a life-changing epiphany for Gabriel. The closing story of James Joyce’s Dubliners is widely considered the greatest short story ever written in the English language. His tender portrait of the Dublin of his youth, ‘its ingenuous insularity and its hospitality’, has captivated readers for over a century. With a new introduction by the award-winning and bestselling Irish author, Nuala O’Connor, this exquisite hardback edition of The Dead is a seasonal gift for the ages.

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NUALA O’CONNOR is a novelist, short story writer and poet, and lives in County Galway with her family. She is the author of six previous novels, including the bestselling Nora (2021), about James Joyce's wife, Nora Barnacle, and six short-story collections. She has won many prizes for her short fiction, including the Francis MacManus Award and the James Joyce Quarterly Fiction Contest. Her story ‘This Giddy Life’ was awarded writing.ie Short Story of the Year at the 2022 Irish Book Awards. Her work has also been nominated for numerous prizes including the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the International Dublin Literary Award. nualaoconnor.com JAMES JOYCE (1882–1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer and poet. He is best known for the influential modernist novels Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939) as well as the masterful short story collection Dubliners (1914). Though he spent most of his adult life in Paris, Zurich and Trieste, his birthplace of Dublin was the setting for all of his major fictional works. 

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'The more deeply one penetrates into its intricately woven textures the more elusive it becomes.' —John Banville


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781835940310
  • Publisher: New Island Books
  • Publisher Imprint: New Island Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1835940315
  • Publisher Date: 07 Nov 2025
  • Binding: Digital download
  • Sub Title: with a new introduction by Nuala O'Connor


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