Dublin, Old and New
A colonial city that became the capital of a nation
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11 min readMar 17
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AFTER Cork and Blarney Castle, I headed for Dublin, the capital of the Irish Republic and, before independence and partition a hundred years ago, the traditional capital of all Ireland.
Like all of Ireland’s major cities, Dublin is on the coast. It sits at the mouth of a river called the Liffey.
