![]() ![]() It’s not all that long, but it might become harder to read as you go on. Participants can read along with the story through this link. After being admonished by his boss for failing to complete his work, Farington leaves the office and goes to a series of pubs. The protagonist of the short story is a man named Mr. It would also serve as an introduction to Joyce for those interested in his work, but a little bit intimidated by Ulysses. ![]() Any there’s a few pubs mentioned for such a short story. We suggest that participants in the crawl could go from pub to pub, and read aloud the relevant parts of the story in the very pubs that they are set. It seemed to be me to be a good theme for a pub crawl. Inspired by the brush with fiction, I read the story when I went home. ![]() Part of the short story occurs inside the snug of O’Neill’s. Kevin mentioned it as we stood outside O’Neill’s pub on Suffolk Street. During the tour, in a section about literary connections to Dublin pubs, Kevin mentioned the James Joyce short story, ‘Counterparts’. A few months ago we were on a pub walking tour with Kevin Martin, the author of ‘ Have ye no homes to go to? A history of the Irish pub‘. ![]()
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