SOURCE: Kearney, Martin F. “Robert Emmet's 1803 Rising and Bold Mrs. Kearney: James Joyce's ‘A Mother’ as Historical Analogue.” Journal of the Short Story in English, no. 37 (autumn 2001): 49-61.
In the following essay, Kearney discusses the significance of Joyce's story, “A Mother,” and its place in the Dubliners collection.
