Dublin, Old and New
<p>AFTER <a href="https://medium.com/p/db2528397f30" rel="noopener">Cork and Blarney Castle</a>, 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.</p>
<p>Like all of Ireland’s major cities, Dublin is on the coast. It sits at the mouth of a river called the Liffey.</p>
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<p>The Liffey</p>
<p>A selfie over the Liffey</p>
<p>Nobody knows for sure what the name Liffey means. It’s thought that the name may date all the way back to the stone age, to the days when people were erecting great monuments all over the British Isles, Ireland included.</p>
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