Sure 'n you have it - Araby by Joyce is part of "The Dubliners," refers to a middle east bazaar he attended as a school lad. Richard >Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:14:11 +1200 >From: Doug & Pat Frykberg <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: [SH] Araby > >I have just read a lovely book by Greta Mulrooney called "araby" >I notice in the Library list that there is another such title "Araby- >James Joyce ed by......oh darn cant remember. >I could not see the connection with the title in Mulrooney's book. >Does the word araby then have a special Irish significance? >Nothing in any dictionary I looked at. >Pat > >Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 23:14:52 -0700 >From: auntie-do <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [SH] Araby > >I think the James Joyce "Araby" is from The Dubliners. The only other >Araby I know fits with a tuneful ditty learned around 1944 at the Laurentian >ski hills. > >Doreen