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For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.

~Frank Delaney

Topics: Add Dublin Incidents Ireland Life Lived My Life Out Period Reported Riots Sort Startling Taken Together Troubles Up War Bbc

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I think that's why you see so many Americans in Dublin look so sad: they are looking for the door through which they can begin to understand this place. I tell them, 'Go to the races.' I think it's the best place to start understanding the Irish.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: American Begin Best Door Dublin Go Irish Look Looking Many Place Races Sad See Start Tell Them Think Through Understand Understanding Which Why You I Think

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The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Dublin Georgian Houses Know Lived Part Pictures See Them Those You

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After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhiking, doing the tourist thing, I went into a church in Dublin.

~Frederica Mathewes-Green

Topics: After Around Church College Doing Dublin Europe Graduated Thing Tourist Traveling While

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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

~Gabriel Byrne

Topics: Attended Bedside Conversation Drowning Dublin Dying Final Football Football Match Friend Her Hospital Hours Last Lived Match Our Out Public She Television Ward Who

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The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.

~George A. Moore

Topics: Am Back Beautiful Dublin Ever Front Long Love Most Most Beautiful Mountains Roads Sea Seen Suburbs Think Through Town Truth Truth Is Winding Woods I Think I Am

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Dublin dwindles so beautifully; there is no harsh separation between it and the country. It fades away, whereas London seems to devour the country; an army of buildings come and take away a beautiful park, and you never seem to get quite out of sight of a row of houses.

~George A. Moore

Topics: Army Away Beautiful Beautifully Between Buildings Come Country Devour Dublin Fades Get Harsh Houses London Never Out Park Quite Row Seem Seems Separation Sight Take Whereas You

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'The Dublin Magazine' has been edited with good taste, and it is very agreeable reading, but to speak quite candidly, I do not believe in the future of any literary journal any more than I believe in the future of the Trinity.

~George A. Moore

Topics: Agreeable Any Been Believe Dublin Edited Future Good Good Taste Journal Literary Magazine More Quite Reading Speak Taste Than Trinity Very I Believe I Believe In

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The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.

~Gerry Adams

Topics: Actively Agreement Basic Citizens Defended Dublin Entitlement Friday Good London Must Promoted Rights Within

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