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  • noun Plural form of Dubliner.

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Examples

  • But my first exposure to Joyce was in a sleepy little black shoebox theatre, where a troupe of mild-mannered turtlenecked barnstormers read from Dubliners from a stage decorated with high stools, and where I, underexposed and underage and over my head, had too much to drink and fell asleep in mid-performance.

    After the Race | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast 2010

  • Typical of Joyce's Dubliners is Mr. Duffy in "A Painful Case," whose suburban existence lacks "any communion with others."

    James Joyce 1946

  • Joyce would have been falsifying the facts, if he had made the people in Dubliners less disgusting than they are.

    As I Please 1944

  • At about 11: 30 PM we stumbled upon an Irish pub called Dubliners, which is located right off of Sol (Puerta del Sol will from now on be shortened to Sol).

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • While not as famous as Ulysses, James Joyce’s Dubliners is an introduction to this Irish writer’s work, and these stories may leave you wanting to read more.

    Top Ten Reads in Literature | Impact Lab 2007

  • Joyce called his Dubliners style a "scrupulous meanness": Davis is the heir to that style, and to another, earlier heir to it, Samuel Beckett.

    New York Review: The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis 2010

  • Joyce called his Dubliners style a "scrupulous meanness": Davis is the heir to that style, and to another, earlier heir to it, Samuel Beckett.

    New York Review: The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis 2010

  • You might want to try James Joyce's short fiction, Dubliners, which is quite readable and some of the best short fiction ever written.

    Overrated novels 2009

  • After a long day at the zoo we went to a bar called Dubliners near our house.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • After a long day at the zoo we went to a bar called Dubliners near our house.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

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