As an old
Irish saying goes God invented whiskey to prevent the Irish from ruling the
world. Nevertheless, nothing has prevented them from ruling the world of
literature. Some of the greatest literary masters of the twentieth century were
Irishman: Yeats in poetry, Beckett in drama, Joyce in fiction.
The
paper highlights the importance of colours in James Joyce’s ‘Dubliners’. As
a famous photographer Robert Henri once put it ‘Colour is only beautiful when it means something’. Indeed
the colours that James Joyce mentioned in ‘Dubliners’
have their exact aim and meaning. But the puzzles and symbols suggested by
James Joyce are difficult to deal with. As he used to say ‘I have put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will
keep the professors busy for centuries’. ( Ellmann 1983: 521). And he was right.