Ivy Day in the Committee Room to base a nation united. Ivy Day in the Committee Room "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection "Dubliners." Taking place on election day, "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" discusses candidate Richard Tierney as people filter in and out. Ivy Day refers to the anniversary of Charles Parnell, important Irish figure and nationalist. In a committee room, Mat O'Connor, a canvasser for Richard Tierney, a candidate in an upcoming municipal election, discusses child-rearing with Old Jack, who tries to keep a fire going. Joe Hynes, another canvasser, arrives
Variations in published cricket statistics 1865 and continued through a record-equalling 44 seasons to 1908. There is general agreement about the status of his matches after the 1895 watershed but a measure of disagreement about the status of some of his earlier games. Grace's "original" career totals were compiled by Ashley-Cooper and added to his obituary in the 1916 "Wisden". The first statistician to make a significant challenge to these "accepted figures" was Roy Webber, who published the "Playfair Book of Cricket Records" in 1951. This deferred to the "Wisden" version re Grace. During the 1950s, Webber made a detailed study of Grace's career and