"Have you been playing a long time
your real self
is also included
from slave quarries in India to child markets in Haiti
With the world hurtling toward destruction
Dubliners, James Joyce short stories "Have you been playing aLiving overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense an international figure,