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                 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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