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Post by Maolsheachlann on Aug 15, 2023 19:23:27 GMT
What's so great about towns?
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Post by Mary on Aug 19, 2023 19:44:18 GMT
We do not all live in city centre of Dublin. I live in a suburb, mixed working and lower middle class. It is very quiet and we are blessed with parks around us that give some feeling of space. Dublin is a collection of neighbourhoods, each has its own distinct personality and most would also have a sense of community.
I too feel a sense of relief getting out of the city centre home to my area but I love Dublin city too and love wandering around it.
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Post by eala on Aug 27, 2023 18:56:40 GMT
The preferred culchie moniker 'jackeen' (referring to the Union Jack) best applies to a particular kind of Dublin eejit and not your ordinary Dub. The salt of the earth Dubs you get talking to at bus stops and pubs are great, particularly their use of language:
It's the East Yank-West Brits—the Vogue Williamses and the Ryan Tubridys , Colm and Jim Jims and their ilk talking talking talking and talking about a blandly boring OIRland that doesn't extend beyond the m50 we culchies can't abide. I second the point about Dublin not being ours in some fundamental fashion. post boxes painted green etc, maybe because for centuries it wasn't, I'd have to think about it.
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Post by Séamus on Aug 28, 2023 12:27:41 GMT
We do not all live in city centre of Dublin. I live in a suburb, mixed working and lower middle class. It is very quiet and we are blessed with parks around us that give some feeling of space. Dublin is a collection of neighbourhoods, each has its own distinct personality and most would also have a sense of community. I too feel a sense of relief getting out of the city centre home to my area but I love Dublin city too and love wandering around it. Charlotte Brontë's Villette character has a noteworthy country-to-city train of thought, turning to like the bustle of London during her first even day there but notes that she barely understood what Londoners said, so differently did they speak. It may seen like a foreign parallel, but it's worth recalling also that the author's father was a Northern Irishman who may in all likelihood have influenced her perceptions viz rural life/captial city life.
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