"God and religion before every thing!' Dante cried. 'God and religion before the world.' Mr Casey raised his clenched fist and brought it down on the table with a crash.'Very well then,' he shouted hoarsely, 'if it comes to that, no God for Ireland!''John! John!' cried Mr Dedalus, seizing his guest by the coat sleeve. Dante stared across the table, her cheeks shaking. Mr Casey struggled up from his chair and bent across the table towards her, scraping the air from before his eyes with one hand as though he were tearing aside a cobweb. 'No God for Ireland!' he cried, 'We have had too much God in Ireland. Away with God!"

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About James Joyce

James Joyce was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, and poet whose work transformed modern literature. He is best known for Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. His experimentation with language and narrative form had enduring influence on 20th-century fiction.

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