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''Through streets broad and narrow,''
''Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh"!''
|'''<s>"[[Refrain From Assuming|Molly Malone]]"</s> "The Tart With the Cart"''', traditional Irish folksong}}
Dublin (From the Irish ''"Dubh Linn"'' meaning ''"Black Pool"'' but it's official Irish name is ''"Áth Cliath"'' meaning ''"The Hurdled Ford"'') is the capital of [[Ireland]], the [[The Irish Diaspora|third-largest Irish city]] after [[Big Applesauce|New York]] and [[Boston (useful notes)|Boston]], and the largest city on the island with a population of about 1 million, including suburbs, and 1.6 million including the population of surrounding counties.
Officially, Dublin celebrated its
Dublin is famous for its writers (especially [[James Joyce]]), musicians, [[Regency England|Georgian architecture]] and its pubs. Indeed, the St. James's Gate Brewery (the home of Guinness, the beer that drinks like a meal) is the most popular tourist attraction in the city...
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{{examples|Dublin in fiction}}
== Film ==
* ''[[Raw]]''▼
* ''[[
* ''[[The Commitments]]''▼
* ''[[Michael Collins]]''▼
* ''[[Haywire]]''▼
== Literature ==
* ''[[Ross O'Carroll-Kelly]]''
* ''[[Ulysses]]''
** And ''[[Dubliners]]'', natch. And ''[[Finnegans Wake]]''. And parts of ''Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'' Basically, (almost) everything [[James Joyce]] ever wrote.
* ''Fair City'', Ireland's only soap opera▼
* ''[[Strumpet City]]''
▲* ''[[The Commitments]]''
* Many of Marian Keyes's books.
* ''[[Artemis Fowl]]''
▲* ''[[Michael Collins]]''
== Live-Action TV ==
▲* ''[[Raw]]''
▲* ''Fair City'', Ireland's only soap opera
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' 2009 episode "In the Name of the Grandfather". Notable for a non-Irish production, especially since it [[Deconstructed]] most of the tropes associated with Ireland from outsiders.
== UNSORTED ==
* ''The Snapper''
* ''The Van''
* ''The Mammy''
▲* ''[[Haywire]]''
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