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In his inimitable, irresistible way, James Joyce immortalized the city of Dublin in Ulysses, Dubliners, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, filling these works with the people he knew, speaking in their own words, and adding many more of his own. Disappointed with the city's provincial outlook and small-town manners, he left it in 1902, at the age of 20 (his famed peers Sean O'Casey and Samuel Beckett soon followed). Later, he said he chose Dublin as the setting for his work because it was a "center of paralysis" where nothing much ever changed. Which only proves that even the greats get it wrong sometimes. Indeed, if Joyce were to return to his once genteel hometown today and take a quasi-Homeric odyssey through the city (as he so famously does in Ulysses), would he even recognize Dublin as his "Dear Dirty Dumpling, foostherfather of fingalls and dotthergills"?

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The economic slowdown has abruptly halted the "absolute avalanche of new hotels" as the Irish Times characterized Dublin's accommodation boom. But visitors...read more

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    Georgian Elegance: Dublin's signature architectural style makes its most triumphant showing in Merrion, Fitzwilliam, Mountjoy, and Parnell squares... Read more

  • Dublin Past and Present

    Until 500 AD, Dublin was little more than a crossroads—albeit a critical one—for four of the main thoroughfares that traversed the... Read more

  • More Bang for Your Buck

    You get what you pay for. For decades Dublin was synonymous with cheap but unexciting accommodation. The Celtic Tiger years transformed expectations... Read more

  • The Darlin' Dublin of James Joyce

    If Joyce fans make one pilgrimage in their lives, let it be to Dublin on June 16th for Bloomsday. June 16th, of course, is the day Leopold Bloom... Read more

  • Dublin's Gorgeous Georgians

    "Extraordinary Dublin!" sigh art lovers and connoisseurs of the 18th century. It was during the "gorgeous eighteenth" that this duckling of a... Read more

  • Pub Grub

    Most pubs serve food at lunchtime, many throughout the day and into the early evening. This is an inexpensive way to eat out, and the quality... Read more

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