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<p>Through Sandymount, Irishtown and Ringsend<br />
Old Dublin, Joyce Dublin, Jameson Dublin, James Connlly and Jim Larkin Dublin.<br />
– The working man’s Dublin,<br />
Where they drank Porter instead of Stout,<br />
Pints of plain paid for with a Friday wage packet —<br />
That sinewed world of labour<br />
Stilled in statues and heavy bronze rope<br />
Slung now over the Liffey Quays</p>
<p>These old bricks have seen it all,<br />
Unimpressed by their new occupants and glass neighbours<br />
Wise to it all<br />
In their own way<br />
Home to generations of mothers who built families<br />
On the twig of poverty and the straw of grit<br />
Hardship?<br />
That’s nothing new here.</p>
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