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DUBLIN
ur ship docked just a few miles from town in struction cranes busy on both sides of the river. Modern
an area mostly designed for cargo ships, so we low rise office and residential buildings flanked the river
Oboarded a shuttle to journey to the heart of the with no sign of the old Dublin of my memories.
city, my first visit since my St. Patrick’s Day pilgrimage In a few minutes, my concerns vanished as we
over three decades ago. As we traveled down a boule- stepped off the bus into one of the city’s old quarters.
vard paralleling the River Liffey we saw a forest of con- We found out later that we had traveled through “Silicon
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