Colgan is the opponent of the Nationalist candidate Richard Tierney. Colgan never appears in the story, but Joe Hynes mentions him as an upright, blue-collar candidate who is possibly superior to Tierney. Though Hynes’s defense of Colgan is reasonable, the other characters refuse to listen: Old Jack denigrates Colgan simply because he’s poor, and John Henchy is too fixated on the idea that Hynes is a spy to take him seriously. In this way, Joyce suggests that a purer alternative might exist to the corrupt Tierney but that the Nationalists are too bitter and conspiratorial to discover it.
Colgan Quotes in Ivy Day in the Committee Room
The Ivy Day in the Committee Room quotes below are all either spoken by Colgan or refer to Colgan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Ivy Day in the Committee Room
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The working-man, said Mr Hynes, gets all kicks and no halfpence. But it’s labour produces everything. The working-man is not looking for fat jobs for his sons and nephews and cousins. The working-man is not going to drag the honour of Dublin through the mud to please a German monarch.
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Colgan Quotes in Ivy Day in the Committee Room
The Ivy Day in the Committee Room quotes below are all either spoken by Colgan or refer to Colgan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Ivy Day in the Committee Room
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The working-man, said Mr Hynes, gets all kicks and no halfpence. But it’s labour produces everything. The working-man is not looking for fat jobs for his sons and nephews and cousins. The working-man is not going to drag the honour of Dublin through the mud to please a German monarch.
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