Characters in Dubliners

Gabriel Conroy

"The Dead": a teacher and part-time book reviewer whose composure gives way at his aunts' Christmas party.

Farrington

"Counterparts": a copying clerk who drinks away a pawned watch-chain and turns his humiliation on his son.

Eveline Hill

"Eveline": a young woman weighing passage to Buenos Aires with a sailor against a promise to her dying mother.

James Duffy

"A Painful Case": a solitary bank cashier who breaks off his one close friendship on principle.

Mrs. Mooney

"The Boarding House": a butcher's daughter turned boarding-house keeper, managing her daughter's compromise toward a marriage.

Tom Kernan

"Grace": a tea salesman whose friends steer him to a Jesuit retreat after a drunken fall; he reappears in Ulysses.

Thomas Chandler

"A Little Cloud": the clerk known as Little Chandler, who imagines a career as a poet of the Celtic school.

Maria (Dubliners)

"Clay": a laundry worker who spends Hallow Eve with the family she once nursed.

Mr. Alleyne

"Counterparts": the chief clerk whose public dressing-down sets Farrington's evening in motion.

Polly Mooney

"The Boarding House": Mrs. Mooney's nineteen-year-old daughter, and the lodger Bob Doran's undoing.

Gretta Conroy

"The Dead": Gabriel's wife, undone by a song she has not heard since girlhood in Galway.

Father James Flynn

"The Sisters": the paralysed priest whose death opens the collection and whose mentorship the boy narrator cannot name.

Ignatius Gallaher

"A Little Cloud": Chandler's old friend, back from London as a successful and coarsened journalist.

Bantam Lyons

John Corley

Fr. Flynn

Jimmy Doyle

Matthew Lenehan

Mr. Doran

Little Chandler

Tom Farrington

Joe Donnelly

Mr. Duffy

Mrs. Sinico

Charles Stewart Parnell

Mrs. Kearney

Kathleen Kearney

Mr. Kernan