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''Where the girls are so pretty,''
''I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone,''
''As she pushed her wheelbarrow''
''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...
Perhaps
'''Northside vs. Southside'''
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The River Liffey divides Dublin in two, and a good thing that it does, because we don't want those [West Brits/scumbags] (delete as appropriate) from the ''other'' side over here.
Note that there are no parts of Dublin
The Northside is traditionally poorer, more Catholic and, to some, more 'Irish' - it is the part you see in Roddy Doyle films. The Southside is historically richer, more cosmopolitan and more Anglophile (hence the insult 'West Brit'). Northsiders play Gaelic sports and soccer; Southsiders play rugby, which is an upper middle class sport in Ireland. Southsiders see Northsiders as druggies and muggers, Northsiders see Southsiders as... well [[
Each side makes fun of the other's accent. I mean, no one really talks like that - roysh?
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Postal codes on the Northside are odd; on the Southside, even.
Dublin 4 (D 4) is ''so'' Southside that even other Southsiders laugh at people from there: a popular series of books starring a D 4 character named Ross O'Carroll-Kelly (both an [[
The headquarters of Ireland's main television service, RTÉ, are located in the Dublin 4 district, and until around the 1990s, most Oar-Tee-Eee presenters had a Dublin 4 accent - apart from Dustin, the children's TV puppet turkey who took his Northside accent to the ''[[Eurovision Song Contest]]'' in 2008.
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'''Dubliners vs. Corkonians'''
Cork is the second city in Ireland (not including [[Stroke Country|Belfast]]), and the largest county. It also has the most jingoistic inhabitants. Corkonians like to think of their city as the ''real'' capital of Ireland - culturally, and at sport at least, and carry on a
'''The Spire of Dublin'''
To celebrate the ''other'' millennium the city set up a 393
== Film ==
* ''[[Raw]]''▼
* ''[[
* ''[[The Commitments]]''▼
* ''[[Michael Collins]]''▼
* ''[[Haywire]]''▼
* ''The Snapper''▼
* ''[[The Van (1996 film)|The Van]]''
* ''[[Agnes Browne]]''
== 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]]''
* ''[[The Mammy (novel)|The Mammy]]'', by Brendan O'Carroll.
▲* ''[[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.
▲* ''The Snapper''
▲* ''[[Haywire]]''
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