ABSTRACT
Employed by the university to instruct in certain aspects of literature, Professor Flacks concentrated his attention on the writings of James Joyce. Shakespeare, Tennyson, Shelley, Coleridge, Wilde, Swift, Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, and another familiar name were all bundled away in favour of a Joycean scholarship that thirty or so years ago was second to none in Irish university life. Heffernan approached Professor Flacks with information that the model for the ill-used girl in Joyce's story Two Gallants had come to light in a house in Donnybrook. Heffernan favoured pin-striped suits, FitzPatrick a commodious, blue blazer. They drank in Kehoe's in Anne Street. Heffernan approached Professor Flacks with the information that the model for ill-used girl in Joyce's story Two Gallants had come to light in a house in Donnybrook. The Professor displayed considerable excitement, and on a night when Mrs Redmond was safely at the pictures he was met by Heffernan at the bus stop and led to the kitchen.
