| Summary | Short Story |
| After the priest Father Flynn dies, a young boy who was close to him and his family deal with it only superficially. | |
| Two schoolboys playing truant encounter an elderly man. | |
| A boy falls in love with the sister of his friend, but fails in his quest to buy her a worthy gift from the Araby bazaar. | |
| A young woman abandons her plans to leave Ireland with a sailor. | |
| College student Jimmy Doyle tries to fit in with his wealthy friends. | |
| Two con men, Lenehan and Corley, find a maid who is willing to steal from her employer. | |
| Mrs. Mooney successfully manoeuvres her daughter Polly into an upwardly mobile marriage with her lodger Mr. Doran. | |
| Little Chandler's dinner with his old friend Ignatius Gallaher casts fresh light on his own failed literary dreams. | |
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| Farrington, a lumbering alcoholic Irish scrivener, takes out his frustration in pubs and on his son Tom. | |
| The old maid Maria, a laundress, celebrates Halloween with her former foster child Joe Donnelly and his family. | |
| Mr. Duffy rebuffs Mrs. Sinico, then four years later realizes he has condemned her to loneliness and death. | |
| Minor Irish politicians fail to live up to the memory of Charles Stewart Parnell. | |
| Mrs. Kearney tries to win a place of pride for her daughter, Kathleen, in the Irish cultural movement, by starring her in a series of concerts, but ultimately fails. | |
| After Mr. Kernan injures himself falling down the stairs in a bar, his friends try to reform him through Catholicism. | |
| Gabriel Conroy attends a party, and later, as he speaks with his wife, has an epiphany about the nature of life and death. | |
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