The Dead (short story) The Dead (short story) "The Dead" is the final story in the 1914 collection "Dubliners" by James Joyce. The other stories in the collection are shorter, whereas at 15,952 words, "The Dead" is long enough to be described as a novella. The story deals with themes of love and loss as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish identity. Gabriel Conroy, Gretta Conroy, Kate and Julia Morkan, and Bartell d'Arcy are all alluded to in James Joyce's later work, "Ulysses", though no character from "The Dead" makes a direct appearance in the novel. The story centres on
Irish short story Man". It was in 1905 that Joyce first attempted to get his famous collection of stories "Dubliners" published, and only after many attempts was it published in 1914. Liam O'Flaherty published his first collection, "Spring Sowing", in 1924, depicting the harsh life of his native Aran Islands. Daniel Corkery, "A Munster Twilight" (1916), was the first of a group of writers from County Cork. Seán Ó Faoláin, whose first collection "Midsummer Night Madness", 1932, was another member of this group, as was Frank O'Connor. His first collection was "Guests of the Nation", 1931. The work of this "Cork school" continued