Mrs. Mooney the boarding-house keeper observes the relationship between her daughter Polly and the lodger Mr. Doran, in this story first published in 1914 in the short-story collection "Dubliners".
A boy growing up in a household where there is no love and no luck but always a shortage of money develops an uncanny ability to pick horse-race winners while furiously riding his wooden rocking-horse.
Two spinster sisters, quietly nursing their dying father in their family home, find their lives disrupted by the reappearance of a former charity boy, now a young soldier, whom their father had raised as a son.
Two Dublin schoolboys in search of an adventure have an encounter with a strange man, in this story first published in 1914 in the short-story collection "Dubliners".