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| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| Child narrator ("Araby") | The child narrator in "Araby" is a young boy who wants to impress a girl he likes with a special gift. Read More |
| Eveline | Eveline in "Eveline" is a young woman who longs to escape her oppressive father but fears the unknown. Read More |
| Little Chandler | Little Chandler in "A Little Cloud" works a desk job but wonders what else life might have to offer him. Read More |
| Mrs. Mooney | Mrs. Mooney owns a boarding house where she pressures one of the tenants into marrying her daughter after they have an affair in "The Boarding House." Read More |
| Maria | Maria in "Clay" works in a laundry and loves her surrogate family but fears dying alone. Read More |
| Tom Kernan | Tom Kernan is a tea merchant whose drinking has become a serious problem in "Grace." Read More |
| Gabriel Conroy | Gabriel Conroy is a professor who questions his beliefs and ponders his mortality after a party in "The Dead." Read More |
| Mr. Alleyne | Mr. Alleyne is Farrington's demanding boss in "Counterparts." |
| Alphy | Alphy is one of the boys Maria nursed as a child in "Clay." |
| Annie | Annie is Little Chandler's overwhelmed wife and mother to their child in "A Little Cloud." |
| Aunt Kate | Aunt Kate is one of Gabriel Conroy's aunts who hosts an annual party in "The Dead." |
| Aunt Julia | Aunt Julia is one of Gabriel Conroy's aunts, known for her singing voice in "The Dead." |
| Gretta Conroy | Gretta Conroy is Gabriel Conroy's wife in "The Dead." |
| Corley | Corley is a young man who seduces a housemaid and convinces her to steal money for him in "Two Gallants." |
| Mr. Cotter | Mr. Cotter is a neighbor to the narrator in "The Sisters," who brings the news of Father Flynn's death and speculates as to the dead priest's peculiar behavior. |
| Mr. Crofton | Mr. Crofton is a political conservative working on the Tierney campaign in "Ivy Day in the Committee Room." |
| Mr. Cunningham | Mr. Cunningham takes charge of the plan to get Tom Kernan to stop drinking in "Grace." |
| Miss Delacour | Miss Delacour is a law client who becomes the object of Farrington's wrath in "Counterparts." |
| Leo Dillon | Leo Dillon is one of the friends slated to skip school in "An Encounter," but he does not join his friends for their day out. |
| Mrs. Donnelly | Mrs. Donnelly is Joe's wife who treats Maria with total kindness in "Clay." |
| Mr. Doran | Mr. Doran is a young man who has an affair with his landlady Mrs. Mooney's daughter in "The Boarding House." |
| Mr. Duffy | Mr. James Duffy in "A Painful Case" is a moral but lonely man who ends his friendship with a married woman out of fear. |
| Eliza | Eliza is one of Father Flynn's sisters in "The Sisters," who talks about her brother's past with the narrator and his aunt. |
| Eveline's father | Eveline's father is a violent and stingy man who oppresses his daughter in "Eveline." |
| Farley | Farley is a wealthy American who hosts his friends on his yacht for drinking and cards in "After the Race." |
| Farrington | Farrington is a law clerk who forgets his troubles by drinking in pubs and beating his children in "Counterparts." |
| Mr. Fitzpatrick | Mr. Fitzpatrick is a secretary for the arts society that refuses to pay Mrs. Kearney in "A Mother." |
| Father Flynn | The narrator's friend, Father Flynn, is a retired (possibly disgraced) priest who has a stroke and dies in "The Sisters." |
| Mr. Fogarty | Mr. Fogarty is a grocer and friend of Tom Kernan in "Grace." |
| Frank | Frank is a young man who asks Eveline to leave Dublin and come live with him as his wife in Buenos Ayres [sic] in "Eveline." |
| Michael Furey | In "The Dead," Michael Furey is Gretta Conroy's first love who died at age 17. |
| Gallaher | Gallaher is a friend of Little Chandler who makes it big as a reporter in London in "A Little Cloud." |
| Mr. Henchy | Mr. Henchy believes a visit from the king might be good for Ireland in "Ivy Day in the Committee Room." |
| Mr. Holohan | Mr. Holohan is a secretary for the arts society whose good relationship with Mrs. Kearney deteriorates quickly in "A Mother." |
| Mr. Hynes | Other campaign workers suspect Mr. Hynes might be a spy for the other candidate and question his Nationalist leanings in "Ivy Day in the Committee Room." |
| Miss Ivors | Miss Ivors is a party guest who questions Gabriel Conroy's patriotism in "The Dead." |
| Jimmy | Jimmy is a student of comparatively limited means who tries to fit in with extremely wealthy friends in "After the Race." |
| Joe | Maria nursed Joe as a child, and he treats her as family, even as a married adult in "Clay." |
| Kathleen | Mrs. Kearney's daughter Kathleen performs as a piano accompanist in "A Mother." |
| Mrs. Kearney | Mrs. Kearney, in "A Mother," sabotages her own ambitions to have her daughter's piano talents raise her family's social standing. |
| Mrs. Kernan | Mrs. Kernan worries about her husband's drinking and the injuries he incurs in "Grace." |
| Lenehan | Lenehan is a young man who works little and womanizes a lot, but wonders if there might be more to life in "Two Gallants." |
| Lily | Lily is the aunts' housemaid, recently jilted by her boyfriend, in "The Dead." |
| Mr. Lyons | Mr. Lyons is a Conservative worker on the Tierney campaign in "Ivy Day in the Committee Room." |
| Mahony | Mahony accompanies the narrator on a day out in the city in "An Encounter." |
| Freddy Malins | Freddy Malins is a guest at the Christmas party in "The Dead," and is generally dismissed as a drunken buffoon. |
| Mangan's sister | Mangan's sister is the object of the narrator's crush in "Araby." |
| Mary Jane | Mary Jane is Gabriel Conroy's cousin, a talented musician raised by their aunts in "The Dead." |
| Mr. M'Coy | Mr. M'Coy joins the efforts to help Tom Kernan stop drinking in "Grace." |
| Polly Mooney | Polly Mooney has an affair with one of her mother's boarders and must therefore marry him in "The Boarding House." |
| Nannie | Nannie is one of Father Flynn's sisters in "The Sisters," who seems to have been his primary caretaker. |
| Child narrator ("An Encounter") | The child narrator of "An Encounter" is excited to skip school and see the city until he and his friend meet a creepy old man. |
| Child narrator ("The Sisters") | The child narrator in "The Sisters" struggles to understand the death of a priest who was his friend. |
| Narrator's aunt ("The Sisters") | In "The Sisters," the narrator's aunt sends the narrator to visit Father Flynn when he is alive and takes the narrator to pay respects after Father Flynn dies. |
| Narrator's uncle ("The Sisters") | In "The Sisters," the narrator's uncle believes the boy should be outside playing with other children instead of hanging around with an old priest. |
| Mr. O'Connor | Mr. O'Connor is a Tierney campaign worker frustrated about not being paid, which leads him to question the candidate's character in "Ivy Day in the Committee Room." |
| Old Jack | Old Jack is a caretaker at the committee room where Mr. Tierney's campaign staff meet in "Ivy Day in the Committee Room." |
| The old man | Two school boys meet an old man in a field in "An Encounter." His actions are not entirely clear, but the boys find him profoundly unsettling. |
| Mr. Power | Mr. Power brings Tom Kernan home after his accident in the pub and hatches the plan to help him stop drinking in "Grace." |
| Father Purdon | Father Purdon is the priest who delivers the sermon at the religious retreat in "Grace." |
| Routh | Routh is an English friend of Charles Ségouin and the others who get into an argument with Jimmy in "After the Race." |
| Charles Ségouin | Charles Ségouin a wealthy French student who leads a social circle in "After the Race." |
| Captain Sinico | Captain Sinico is a merchant ship captain who ignores his wife in "A Painful Case." |
| Mrs. Sinico | Mrs. Sinico is a lonely wife who is hit by a train after her friendship with a bachelor ends in "A Painful Case." |
| Mr. Tierney | Mr. Tierney is a candidate for city office whose position on Nationalism and the king's upcoming visit are unclear to his supporters in "Ivy Day in the Committee Room." |
| Tom | Tom, Farrington's son in "Counterparts," takes a severe beating when his father comes home drunk. |
| Villona | Villona is a Hungarian student, very poor and obsessed with music, in "After the Race." |
| Weathers | Weathers beats Farrington at arm wrestling in "Counterparts," which stokes Farrington's rage before he goes home. |
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