...set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain,...treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, further westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every...

...of the snow right across Ireland: Yes the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain,...churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried (p. 220). The snow, then, is used to create a very effective link between Gabriel and Michael. At the...

...were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central 65 plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon...lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked 70 crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned...

...("general all over Ireland," in a phrase echoed from a casual use of it earlier in the story), was "falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther...falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves." It could be argued that there is an operative contrast here between the snow falling softly onto the soft...

...snow. JOHN. I'll drink to that. JAMES. (Steps out of the scene.) The snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain,...every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where my mother lay buried. It lay thickly, drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears...

...beautiful passage by James Joyce. Yes, the newspapers were right, snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly on the Bog of Allen, and farther westward, falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. We assume...

...set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling sofdy upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, sofdy falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.213...

...Book of Snoòs, eh. 3(1848). Snow 1 Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain,...mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon Mrs. Montagu has dropped me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but...

...experience Gabriel's despair and loneliness, to feel "the snow [that] was general all over Ireland . . . falling on every part of the dark central plain, on...softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward. ..." I want them to know Gretta's secret world, to be part of her secret life. I ask: "Don't we all...

...Night." "The Dead" ends like this: Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain,...softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. (Joyce, Dubliners, 223) Just before the end of "A Wet Night," we have: But the wind had dropped, as...