... true of Ireland in the early decades of the 1900's. This time sets the scene for the characters in a collection of short stories by James Joyce, entitled "Dubliners". Celibacy plays a subtle part in several of the stories included in "Dubliners". A number of the characters remain celibate ... and lived happily ever after. In other cases social customs play a larger part than anything else in a person's choice to remain celibate. James Duffy exemplifies this idea well in "A Painful Case". He and Mrs. Sinico are involved in a relationship in which they often find themselves ... enough to ...

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