The Committee Room is the headquarters of Ireland’s Nationalist party, and the setting for “Ivy Day in the Committee Room.” Joyce assumed his Irish readers would know that this was where the followers of the leader Charles Stewart Parnell, after his scandalous extramarital affair went public, defected from the party under pressure from the Church. By setting his story here, Joyce makes an implicit comparison between Parnell’s famously strong team of Nationalists in the 1880s and the lazy group of bumbling, gossipy party men circa 1902.
The Committee Room Quotes in Ivy Day in the Committee Room
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Ivy Day in the Committee Room
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Old Jack raked the cinders together with a piece of cardboard and spread them judiciously over the whitening dome of coals. When the dome was thinly covered his face lapsed into darkness but, as he set himself to fan the fire again, his crouching shadow ascended the opposite wall and his face slowly re-emerged into light. It was an old man’s face, very bony and hairy. The moist blue eyes blinked at the fire and the moist mouth fell open at times, munching once or twice mechanically when it closed.
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Ivy Day in the Committee Room
Old Jack stokes a weak fire in the Committee Room , the headquarters for the Irish Nationalist party. Next to the fire, Mat O’Connor, a...
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