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Subject: [NY IRISH] Re: Dublin
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 21:01:25 EST


Pat

I also stayed outside the city and bused every day to do research when I was
there in 1999. I had no problems there but then I grew up in the Bronx so
Dublin was no different from NYC.

The only crime we encountered was that three of our hubcaps were swapped in
Kilmallock which is located in rural Limerick. The other hubcap was lost
somehow in Castlebar, Mayo. My husband says I lost it when I hit the curb in
Castlebar around Linen Hall Street (those streets are very narrow!). I
really think he lost it. :-)

Nora Hopkins FitzGerald
Cherry of Cratloe Co. Clare and Brooklyn/Queens
FitzGerald/Regan of Glenroe Co. Limerick and Ballinslea, Co. Cork and
Brooklyn/Queens
Grant/Morgan of Clonduff Parish Co. Down
Grant of Pittsburgh, PA and NYC
Hopkins of Crimlin, Castlebar Co. Mayo and NYC
Morgan/Wood of Brown County, Ohio


>
> I stayed on the outskirts of Dublin for a week in May and everyday bused
> in to do research at the National Library of Ireland. I had no problems
> and found the city very Irish but a city. Shopped all over. They have
> a beautiful three story mall near St Stephen's Green on the corner of
> Grafton Street. I ate a couple of times in Temple Bar. I have nothing
> bad to say about Dublin but then I grew up outside New York City.
>
> ..........
>
> I had heard terrible stories about the crime in both Dublin and Limerick
> City from locals all over the country before visiting both. Maybe I was
> lucky but had no problems in either city.
>
> --
> Pat Connors, Sacramento CA
>




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