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I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

~Aidan Turner

Topics: Acting After Did Dublin Five Gaiety Left School Theater Years

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Former Dublin newsman Paul Lynch made his debut as a novelist a few years ago with a book called 'Red Sky in Morning,' set in mid-19th century County Donegal, where a rage-driven farmer has committed a murder with devastating results.

~Alan Cheuse

Topics: Book Century Committed County Debut Devastating Dublin Farmer Few Former His Made Morning Novelist Paul Red Results Set Sky Where Years Years Ago

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What great writers have done to cities is not to tell us what happens in them, but to remember what they think happened or, indeed, might have happened. And so Dickens reinvented London, Joyce, Dublin, and so on.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Cities Dickens Done Dublin Great Happened Happens Indeed Joyce London Might Remember Tell Them Think Us Writers

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It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified.

~Anjelica Huston

Topics: Becoming Dublin Find More More And More Old Pockets Possible Still

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I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.

~Barry Humphries

Topics: About Australian Conversation Driver Dublin First Had Interesting Most Played Production Put Taxi Waiting 1950S

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250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.

~Barry Mcguigan

Topics: After Along Bus Cheer Day Dublin Faces Fight Forget Me Never Never Forget People Sea Smiling Title Turned Up Winning World

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Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.

~Bonnie Tyler

Topics: Dublin Fabulous Hard Place Play Trouble Well Work Work Hard You

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When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

~Brendan Behan

Topics: Absence Back Came Could Death Dublin Me Said Shoot I Came

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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.

~Caitriona Balfe

Topics: Anyone Dublin Felt Fish French Know Left Like Moved Out Paris Speak Water

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My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

~Colin Farrell

Topics: Community Dublin History Music Place Sense Traditional

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