Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options.
I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.
I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter. . . I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16 I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
Barrons’ lips twitched. I’d almost made him smile. Barrons smiles about as often as the sun comes out in Dublin, and it has the same effect on me; makes me feel warm and stupid.
. . . 60 advocates of unorthodox therapies whose credentials are given in the ACS book (above). (:) Of these 60, thirty-nine or almost two-thirds, hold. . . medical degrees from such universities as Harvard, Illinois, Northwestern, Yale, Dublin, Oxford, or Toronto. Two are osteopaths. 3. . . also hold. . . (PhD's). . . . scientific. . . . reputable. . . . 8 others received PhD's in such fields as chemistry, physiology, bacteriology, parasitology, or medical physics, from. . . Yale, Johns Hopkins, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and NYU. Thus over 75%. . . are medical doctors or doctors of philosophy in scientific areas.
When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?
It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.
Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.
If you're from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you're lucky enough to, right up to the mid-20s. And most of the people I know, when they finally sort of set off on their own, they don't stray all that far.
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.
by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they had made in the characters of others.
We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got, we are possessed of a most futile and diverting cleverness.
Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
I was a child of the '60s basically, which is a real blank. I really started growing up, I think, in the '70s. I'm a glam-rock kid. But Dublin, Ireland in those days was a very dark place, as in it was a very poor, almost third world. Economically, the whole world is going through a recession at the moment. In the '60s, '70s, and the '80s in Ireland was a real recession. It wasn't a pleasant place.
There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.
I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.
