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Tom Kernan
Power is one of Tom Kernan’s closest friends; he’s employed in the Royal Irish Constabulary Office in Dublin Castle. After Kernan drunkenly falls in the pub and is about to be arrested by a constable, Power emerges from the back of the pub and offers (along with the man in the cycling-suit) to take Kernan home. After helping Kernan into his home and promising to Mrs. Kernan to help him “turn over a new leaf,” Kernan is appalled by the lower-class accents of the Kernan children and resolves to bring the household back to its former reputation. Power then rallies his friends Martin Cunningham and Mr. M’Coy to help him bring Kernan to a Catholic retreat in the hopes that he will reform his behavior and be redeemed. Power is largely the ringleader of the friend group and he steers their conversation throughout the story, as the four men discuss details of the Catholic faith in Ireland (many of which they get wrong). Ultimately, Power’s quest to get Kernan to the retreat is successful; the story ends with the four men in the Jesuit Church. Power is the director of the action in “Grace”; the retreat is his idea, and it is he who sets Kernan on the possible, though by no means assured, path to redemption.
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Mr Power, a much younger man, was employed in the Royal Irish Constabulary Office in Dublin Castle. The arc of his social rise intersected the arc of his friend’s decline but Mr Kernan’s decline was mitigated by the fact that certain of those friends who had known him at his highest point of success still esteemed him as a character.
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--Yes, that’s it, said Mr Cunningham, Jack and I and M’Coy here – we’re all going to wash the pot.
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Every other order of the Church has to be reformed at some time or other but the Jesuit Order was never once reformed. It never fell away.
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--But, of course, said Mr Cunningham quietly and effectively, our religion is the religion, the old, original faith.
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--Allow me, said Mr Cunningham positively, it was Lux upon Lux. And Pius IX. his predecessor’s motto was Crux upon Crux that is, Cross upon Cross – to show the difference between their two pontificates.
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Jack Power Quotes in Grace
The Grace quotes below are all either spoken by Jack Power or refer to Jack Power. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Mr Power, a much younger man, was employed in the Royal Irish Constabulary Office in Dublin Castle. The arc of his social rise intersected the arc of his friend’s decline but Mr Kernan’s decline was mitigated by the fact that certain of those friends who had known him at his highest point of success still esteemed him as a character.
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--Yes, that’s it, said Mr Cunningham, Jack and I and M’Coy here – we’re all going to wash the pot.
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Every other order of the Church has to be reformed at some time or other but the Jesuit Order was never once reformed. It never fell away.
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--But, of course, said Mr Cunningham quietly and effectively, our religion is the religion, the old, original faith.
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--Allow me, said Mr Cunningham positively, it was Lux upon Lux. And Pius IX. his predecessor’s motto was Crux upon Crux that is, Cross upon Cross – to show the difference between their two pontificates.
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