Gypo Nolan

Commandant Dan Gallagher

Dan is the revolutionary leader betrayed by Gypo, creating a tense dynamic of authority and guilt.

Katie Fox

Gypo is infatuated with Katie, but she manipulates him for her own ends.

Mary McPhillip

Gypo is obsessed with Mary, viewing her as an unattainable ideal that fuels his betrayal.

Bartly Mulholland

Bartly is a fellow revolutionary who distrusts and clashes with Gypo over loyalty.

The Rat Mulligan

Gypo and Rat are underworld acquaintances, sharing a seedy camaraderie in the Dublin slums.

Tommy Connor

Tommy is a young revolutionary who interacts with Gypo in the tense atmosphere of the movement.

Betty

Betty is a barmaid who knows Gypo casually, part of his drinking circle.

Maggie

Maggie is a local woman who interacts with Gypo in the pub and street scenes.

Louisa Cummins

Louisa is a local woman who encounters Gypo in the slums, part of his degraded social circle.

Commandant Dan Gallagher

Dan is the revolutionary leader betrayed by Gypo, creating a tense dynamic of authority and guilt.

Commandant Dan Gallagher

Dan is the revolutionary leader betrayed by Gypo, creating a tense dynamic of authority and guilt.

Katie Fox

Gypo is infatuated with Katie, but she manipulates him for her own ends.

I

Gypo meets with Frankie McPhillip in the lodging house, eats hungrily, and later steals a fellow lodger's dinner after McPhillip leaves.

Chapter III

Gypo is tormented by guilt and paranoia, unable to devise a plan or alibi. He is haunted by McPhillip's memory and fears the Revolutionary Organization's retribution.

IV

Acts erratically from guilt, gives coins to Mrs. McPhillip, panics when more coins fall, draws suspicion.

V

Gypo is paranoid and aggressive, attacking Mulholland when he mentions the money. He fears the Organization's reach.

VII

Confronted by Gallagher; falsely accuses the Rat Mulligan of informing.

Chapter VIII

Gypo is the center of attention, treating the crowd to food and reveling in his newfound importance. He is paranoid about being called an informer and tries to project confidence by invoking Gallagher.

IX

Gypo, flush with reward money, decides to visit a high-class brothel. He is tracked by Mulholland and spends lavishly, but becomes fixated on a mysterious woman in a fur coat who ignores him.

Chapter X

Found by Mulholland in a brothel with Connemara Maggie; reluctantly agrees to follow Mulholland's orders.

Chapter XI

Gypo is interrogated by Gallagher, becomes increasingly agitated and incoherent, and finally confesses to being the informer before collapsing in despair.

XII

Condemned to death by the revolutionary court; his fate is sealed as the execution squad prepares to take him away.

XIV

Condemned to death, Gypo executes a pre-arranged escape plan, climbing to a trapdoor and fleeing under gunfire.

XVI

Exhausted and paranoid, Gypo seeks sleep at Katie's, then flees through the streets in panic, forgetting his new status as an informer.

XVIII

Wounded and dying, Gypo confesses to Mrs. McPhillip and seeks forgiveness before collapsing in the church.