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What had Gretta on?
The Conroys and the Blooms had something in common: a stranger, in one case a dead one, had wandered into their marriage. They also tended to wander into each other's books.
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Amor and Psyche
A German traveller’s account of a visit he made to Dublin in 1850 reveals much about the politics and economics of being pretty and the life of a poor girl in Victorian Dublin
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Tallaght, before Babel
Fionn Mac Cumhaill was well remembered until quite recently for his many exploits not too far off the route of the 65b from Hawkins Street
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The Prussians are impressed
The German historian Friedrich Von Raumer, visiting in 1835, had never seen beggars, or popular amusements, quite like Dublin's.
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Hormones Will Out
Trinity College students in the early twentieth century were denied association with women, so their energies found other outlets.
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Morning Glory Beyond Rathmines
A Dublin poem, of going and returning, from Gerard Smyth.
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Weeping for the Workers
The supreme place given to the national question meant some Dublin politicians had to affect a deep concern for the poor they did not necessarily really feel.
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The Lady in the Dodder
A stroll along the banks of the Dodder recalls a murder committed in 1900, and its reverberations in two of Joyce's works.
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Well Done Please
Like the famous literary character he created, Bram Stoker was a healthy feeder.
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Supping with the Devil
Four generations ago Dublin had a vibrant and numerous working class Protestant community. For some of their middle class co-religionists they were too vibrant.
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Larkin in Dublin
Philip Larkin visited Dublin for a library conference in 1967. He wasn't hugely impressed.
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