Dubliners Dubliners Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences a life-changing self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in
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