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
Max Mapes Ellis the region. These discoveries were chronicled in his paper "Gymnotid Eels of Tropical America" which was published in 1913. In 1913, he and Frank Marion Andrews were published in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club with an article about the leaf hairs of salvinia natans. His first book, "The Amphibia and Reptilia of Colorado", which he co-wrote with Junius Henderson was published in 1913. His second book, "Fishes of Colorado", was published in 1914. During this time, he and his wife Marion had their first child, Cornelia Grace, who was born in October 1914. He published many articles about