Kernan, Thomas (Tom). In the Dubliners story “Grace,” Protestant Tom Kernan is a drunk whose Catholic friends talk him into going to a Catholic retreat to help him turn over a new leaf. The intervention seems to have had little effect, since Kernan orders a gin in Wandering Rocks and seems to fully participate in the drinking going on in Sirens. He is one of the mourners at Patrick Dignam’s funeral in Hades, appears as one of the members of Bloom’s jury in Circe, and is mentioned in his occupation as a tea merchant in Lotus Eaters, Lestrygonians, Eumaeus, Ithaca, and Penelope.