The Sisters (short story) The Sisters (short story) "The Sisters" is a short story by James Joyce, the first of a series of short stories called "Dubliners". Originally published in the "Irish Homestead" on 13 August 1904, "The Sisters" was Joyce's first published work of fiction. Joyce later revised the story and had it, along with the rest of the series, published in book form in 1914. ″The Sisters″ gives a portrait of the relationship between a nameless boy and the infirm priest Father Flynn. The priest who has been relieved of his priestly duties has acted as a mentor for the boy 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