SOURCE: Haughey, Jim. “Joyce and Trevor's Dubliners: The Legacy of Colonialism.” Studies in Short Fiction 32, no. 3 (summer 1995): 355-65.

In the following essay, Haughey finds similarities between Trevor's “Two More Gallants” and James Joyce's “Two Gallants,” perceiving the former's story as an “updated commentary on the legacy of Ireland's colonial experience.”

In a recent review of Edna Longley's latest collection of essays—The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland—Norman Vance notes that “Irish Literature, fraught with tradition, has a reputation for endlessly re-reading itself, not necessarily with value added, under the misapprehension that it is reading ‘Ireland,’ whatever and wherever that might be” (43). At times, such re-readings may be accused of self-serving revisionism, and “It requires great faith in literature to believe that Irish literature itself can correct ideological astigmatism and promote new ways of seeing …” (43). As Vance and Longley point out, perhaps there is a need...