All 40 Uses of
Dublin
in
Dubliners
- We pleased ourselves with the spectacle of Dublin's commerce—the barges signalled from far away by their curls of woolly smoke, the brown fishing fleet beyond Ringsend, the big white sailing-vessel which was being discharged on the opposite quay.†
Chpt 2
- AFTER THE RACE THE cars came scudding in towards Dublin, running evenly like pellets in the groove of the Naas Road.†
Chpt 5
- He had made his money as a butcher in Kingstown and by opening shops in Dublin and in the suburbs he had made his money many times over.†
Chpt 5
- He had also been fortunate enough to secure some of the police contracts and in the end he had become rich enough to be alluded to in the Dublin newspapers as a merchant prince.†
Chpt 5
- He had sent his son to England to be educated in a big Catholic college and had afterwards sent him to Dublin University to study law.†
Chpt 5
- Dublin is such a small city: everyone knows everyone else's business.†
Chpt 7
- He picked his way deftly through all that minute vermin-like life and under the shadow of the gaunt spectral mansions in which the old nobility of Dublin had roystered.†
Chpt 8
- You could do nothing in Dublin.†
Chpt 8
- I feel a ton better since I landed again in dear dirty Dublin....†
Chpt 8 *
- "Then it is an immoral city," said Little Chandler, with timid insistence—"I mean, compared with London or Dublin?"†
Chpt 8
- "Ah, well," said Ignatius Gallaher, "here we are in old jog-along Dublin where nothing is known of such things."†
Chpt 8
- After the break-up at home the boys had got her that position in the Dublin by Lamplight laundry, and she liked it.†
Chpt 10
- A PAINFUL CASE MR. JAMES DUFFY lived in Chapelizod because he wished to live as far as possible from the city of which he was a citizen and because he found all the other suburbs of Dublin mean, modern and pretentious.†
Chpt 11
- He lived in an old sombre house and from his windows he could look into the disused distillery or upwards along the shallow river on which Dublin is built.†
Chpt 11
- His face, which carried the entire tale of his years, was of the brown tint of Dublin streets.†
Chpt 11
- He dined in an eating-house in George's Street where he felt himself safe from the society o Dublin's gilded youth and where there was a certain plain honesty in the bill of fare.†
Chpt 11
- Her husband was captain of a mercantile boat plying between Dublin and Holland; and they had one child.†
Chpt 11
- No social revolution, he told her, would be likely to strike Dublin for some centuries.†
Chpt 11
- He went often to her little cottage outside Dublin; often they spent their evenings alone.†
Chpt 11
- This was the paragraph: DEATH OF A LADY AT SYDNEY PARADE A PAINFUL CASE Today at the City of Dublin Hospital the Deputy Coroner (in the absence of Mr. Leverett) held an inquest on the body of Mrs. Emily Sinico, aged forty-three years, who was killed at Sydney Parade Station yesterday evening.†
Chpt 11
- Dr. Halpin, assistant house surgeon of the City of Dublin Hospital, stated that the deceased had two lower ribs fractured and had sustained severe contusions of the right shoulder.†
Chpt 11
- He was not in Dublin at the time of the accident as he had arrived only that morning from Rotterdam.†
Chpt 11
- When he gained the crest of the Magazine Hill he halted and looked along the river towards Dublin, the lights of which burned redly and hospitably in the cold night.†
Chpt 11
- He turned his eyes to the grey gleaming river, winding along towards Dublin.†
Chpt 11
- The working-man is not going to drag the honour of Dublin in the mud to please a German monarch.†
Chpt 12
- "He told me: 'What do you think of a Lord Mayor of Dublin sending out for a pound of chops for his dinner?†
Chpt 12
- The citizens of Dublin will benefit by it.†
Chpt 12
- A MOTHER MR HOLOHAN, assistant secretary of the Eire Abu Society, had been walking up and down Dublin for nearly a month, with his hands and pockets full of dirty pieces of paper, arranging about the series of concerts.†
Chpt 13
- Little boys were sent out into the principal streets of Dublin early on Friday morning with bundles of handbills.†
Chpt 13
- Miss Kathleen Kearney's musical career was ended in Dublin after that, he said.†
Chpt 13
- If they didn't pay her to the last farthing she would make Dublin ring.†
Chpt 13
- Mr. Power, a much younger man, was employed in the Royal Irish Constabulary Office in Dublin Castle.†
Chpt 14
- His hot face had leaned forward a little too confidentially and he had assumed a very low Dublin accent so that the young ladies, with one instinct, received his speech in silence.†
Chpt 15
- All Dublin is raving about him.†
Chpt 15
- She lived with her married daughter in Glasgow and came to Dublin on a visit once a year.†
Chpt 15
- Mr. Browne could go back farther still, to the old Italian companies that used to come to Dublin—Tietjens, Ilma de Murzka, Campanini, the great Trebelli, Giuglini, Ravelli, Aramburo.†
Chpt 15
- Those were the days, he said, when there was something like singing to be heard in Dublin.†
Chpt 15
- —the Three Graces of the Dublin musical world.†
Chpt 15
- "Teddy will have all the cabs in Dublin out," he said.†
Chpt 15
- "And then when it came to the time for me to leave Galway and come up to the convent he was much worse and I wouldn't be let see him so I wrote him a letter saying I was going up to Dublin and would be back in the summer, and hoping he would be better then."†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(Dublin) capital, largest city, and major port of the Irish Republic