Luncheon Discussion of James Joyce's "The Dead"

14 - 15

January 2014

Past Event

Luncheon Discussion of James Joyce's "The Dead"

Past Event

Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters

January 14 - 15, 2014

14 - 15

January 2014

Past Event

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

So speaks James Joyce's character Gabriel Conroy, favorite nephew of the Misses Kate and Julia Morkan, in his after-dinner address to their annual Epiphany dinner. As we read and reflect upon Joyce's short story "The Dead," can we conclude that we too live in a "thought-tormented age?" Is Conroy's "conservative" answer, recurrence to "the tradition of genuine warm-hearted courteous Irish hospitality, which our forefathers have handed down to us and which we must hand down to our descendants," a sufficient answer? What are we to make of the fact that Conroy himself seems to be cut loose from the traditions he praises, himself a "man without a country," so to speak?

Please join us for what is sure to be a lively discussion co-moderated by William Schambra and John Weicher Lunch will be served.

For a copy of James Joyce's The Dead" -- from the collection Dubliners or telephone at (202) 974-2424.

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