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The History of Literature
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The Importance of the Place in Which We Live
The place where we live is an important place and that's something that you find in wider Irish writing as well. A perfectly ordinary city street or a suburban street can have that kind of significance I think it's probably significant that you have writers in Dublin who have written about the suburbs. You know one called Ode to suburbia no magic here yet you approach and tell the countryside fooled by your plainness falls then rises from your bed changed schooled forever by your compromises.
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