# Ignatius Gallaher — Dubliners character guide

> Ignatius Gallaher in Dubliners by James Joyce.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Gallaher, Mr. and Mrs. Ignatius Gallaher

**First appearance:** 0007-a-little-cloud

## Snapshot

A wild Dublin talent who fled to the London Press and returns successful, making his old friend feel both proud and small.

## Who they are

Gallaher was the friend everyone remembered for his bold face and rakish set, the one who borrowed money and slipped out of a shady affair into a career on Fleet Street. His return stirs Little Chandler's envy and ambition, tempting him to imagine that success lies only in leaving Dublin. Gallaher's worldly ease and his old friend's restlessness together set the story's quiet tragedy of missed possibility in motion.

## In the story

### [A Little Cloud](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dubliners_se/chapters/a-little-cloud)

Chandler's old friend, now a brash and worldly London journalist, whose success and vulgarity both impress and disillusion Chandler.

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