FRANK O'CONNOR AND THE MODERN IRISH SHORT STORY

for the modern Irish writer by exposing the fear, stagnation, and bitter loneliness of Irish life.3 It was, however, The Untitled Field that first gave dramatic expression to Ireland's moral and spiritual paralysis. As Bren dan Kennelly points out, "Joyce regarded Dubliners as 'a chapter in the moral history' of Ireland and the Irish people. ................
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