In a story from this collection, Mr. Alleyne’s head seems “so pink and hairless” to the narrator that “it seemed like a large egg reposing on the papers.” In a different story from this collection, a man wonders if Robert Browning “would be above the heads of his hearers” while listening to skirts against the drawing-room door. In another story from this collection, a canvasser for the minor politician Richard Tierney recites a poem dedicated to Charles Parnell. The final story from this collection, which includes “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” ends with snow “falling faintly through the universe” after a performance of “The Lass of Aughrim” at a party attended by Gretta and Gabriel Conroy. For 10 points, what collection about inhabitants of the title Irish city includes “The Dead” and was written by James Joyce? ■END■
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 14 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.14 |
| North | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.10 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 83.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 87.70 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 13 | 92% | 0% | 0% | 103.33 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.75 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.63 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.09 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth | Cornell-UG | 48 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland A | 51 | 10 |
| Richard Lin | Amherst A | MIT A | 56 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Auburn A | 56 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | SIUE | 62 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | UMBC A | 64 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto B | 68 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Sheffield A | 69 | 10 |
| Meggy Mani | Georgetown B | Maryland B | 70 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan B | Indiana B | 70 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Williams | 70 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | McGill D | 71 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | George Washington B | 73 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Brandeis Orlando | 73 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Birmingham A | 73 | 10 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech A | 74 | 10 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | Toronto H | 77 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto J | 77 | 10 |
| Vayun Krishna | Georgetown A | Penn B | 77 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Illinois C | 77 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Purdue B | 77 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Texas A | 77 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt A | 77 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Cambridge C | 77 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Edinburgh A | 77 | 10 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Durham A | 77 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol A | Warwick B | 77 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago D | 79 | 10 |
| Jon Suh | Harvard | Brown A | 79 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Louisville B | 80 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Alberta B | 82 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Alabama A | 82 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Michigan C | 83 | 10 |
| Thomas Newill | Tufts A | Tufts B | 83 | 10 |
| Grace Early | Iowa | UTD A | 83 | 10 |
| Oliver Rothnie | Durham B | Imperial C | 83 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Cambridge A | 83 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | City St George's A | 83 | 10 |
| Grace Ma | Brown C | Brandeis Clemenceau | 84 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | UIC | 86 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech B | 87 | 10 |
| Uday Bhardwaj | McGill B | Toronto K | 90 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | NYU B | 91 | 10 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | William Woods | 91 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Notre Dame D | 91 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Sheffield C | 91 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Manchester A | 91 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | McMaster A | 96 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Truman State | 96 | 10 |
| Aaron Velez | Yale B | BC A | 96 | 10 |
| Stephen Pace | Guelph B | Waterloo | 99 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Michigan D | 99 | 10 |
| Ruby Xia | Arizona State B | Ohio | 99 | 10 |
| Mason Evans | Tulsa | UTD B | 99 | 10 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn B | Huntsville A | 99 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto D | 100 | 10 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU A | George Mason B | 100 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Northwestern B | 102 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Rose State | 105 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Bristol B | 107 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | Penn A | 111 | 10 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | McGill A | 115 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington A | Catholic University | 126 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | McMaster C | 128 | 10 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill C | Toronto I | 128 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Brandeis Lloyd George | 128 | 10 |
| Misbah Meghani | UAB A | Mississippi State A | 128 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | LSE B | 129 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | McMaster B | 131 | 10 |
| Blake Kim-Wansbrough | Toronto E | Western Ontario | 131 | 10 |
| Graham Lucas | Bowdoin B | BC B | 131 | 10 |
| Yasmin Campbell | Cambridge D | Southampton B | 131 | 10 |
| Sidarth Erat | MIT B | BU | 132 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Purdue C | 135 | 10 |
| Olivia Parisotto | Toronto G | Toronto F | 138 | 0 |
| Samuel Zheng | Toronto F | Toronto G | 138 | 0 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | Johns Hopkins B | 138 | 10 |
| Ethan Burks | Huntsville B | Sewanee A | 138 | 10 |