James Joyce’s Echoes in Caitriona Lally’s Portrait of Dublin City

Abstract

James Stephens and James Joyce have been mentioned as referents for Caitriona Lally’s highly acclaimed debut novel, Eggshells (2015). The present contribution intends to study this new brilliant rendering of the city of Dublin through the eyes of allegedly ‘changeling’ Vivian, whose Joycean creative musings on language serve her to portray contemporary Dublin, as well as to imaginatively project portals to other worlds where she can feel more at ease.

Keywords

• contemporary Irish literature
• flâneuse
• James Joyce
• Caitriona Lally
• Eggshells
• Dublin City