Public Life stories Flashcards
Ivy Day - question of wages
“Has he paid you yet?”
Ivy Day - Tierney’s nickname
“Is it Tricky Dicky Tierney?”
Ivy Day - yearning for the past
“God be with them times” Said the Old Man. There was some life in it then”
Ivy Day - focus on money
“No money, boys”
Ivy Day - priest description
“A person resembling a poor clergyman or a poor actor” “appearance of damp cheese”
Ivy Day - priest’s voice
“discreet, indulgent, velvety voice”
Ivy Day - mixing of clerical and monetary matters
“it was a little business matter”
Ivy Day - stairs quote
“but the stairs is so dark. - No I can see …”
Ivy Day - outcast priest
“he’s what you call a black sheep”
Ivy Day - language of acceptance
“he’s not so bad after all”
Ivy Day - parody of 3 gun salute for Parnell
“Pok!”
Ivy Day - non commital language
“Hes in favour of whatever will benefit this country” “He doesn’t belong to any party”
Ivy Day - death of ideals
“Parnell, said Mr Henchy, is dead”
A Mother - marriage of Mrs Kearney
“Miss Devlin became Mrs Kearney out of spite”
A Mother - description of Mrs K
“she was naturally pale and unbending in manner”
A Mother - selling herself for marriage
“she was sent out to many houses where her playing and ivory manners were much admired”
A Mother - marriage due to public opinion
“when…her friends began to loosen their tongues about her she silenced them by marrying Mr. Kearney”
A Mother - objectification of her husband
“such a man would wear better than a romantic person”
A Mother - Joyce satire of the Irish Revival
“When the Irish Revival began to be appreciable” “take advantage of her daughter’s name”
A Mother - imbuing herself with importance
“Mrs Kearney helped him. She had tact” “and, thanks to her”
A Mother - respect for her husband
“She respected her husband in the same way she respected the General Post Office, as something large secure and fixed”
A Mother - value of her husband
“he appreciated his abstract value as a male”
A Mother - money and public reputation
“The Committee had treated her scandalously” “she would make Dublin ring”
A Mother - awareness of gender politics
“They thought they had only a girl to deal with”
A Mother - similar description to Farrington
“her face was inundated with an angry colour” “haggard with rage”
A Mother - public opinion has final say
“Mrs. Kearney’s conduct was condemned”
A Mother - Daughter submissively obeying
“Kathleen followed her mother meekly”
Grace - descent into Hell
“He lay curled up at the foot of the stairs down which he had fallen”
Grace - vivid imagery of fall
“His clothes were smeared with the filth and ooze of the floor”
Grace - loss of speech
“Sha, ‘s nothing”
Grace - description of the wife
“She was an active practical woman”
Grace - trap of domestic duty
“After three weeks she had found a wife’s life irksome, and when she was beginning to find it unbearable, she became a mother”
Grace - language of acceptance
“There were worse husbands”
Grace - practicality of faith
“She believed in the Sacred Heart as the most generally useful of all Catholic devotions”
Grace - superstition around religion
“I bar the magical-lantern business”
Grace - priest description
“A powerful looking figure … was observed to be struggling up the pulpit” “two-thirds of its bulk, crowned by a massive red face”
Grace - simony, associating religion with temporal matters
“It was a text for business men and professional men” “he was their spiritual accountant”
Grace - acceptance of sin
“But if, as might happen, there were some discrepancies, to admit the truth, to be frank and say like a man: - … I will set right my accountants”
