{"id":9,"date":"2014-03-02T23:27:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T23:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donagh.macdonagh.net\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2014-03-02T23:28:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T23:28:55","slug":"on-the-bridge-of-athlone-a-prophecy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/donagh.macdonagh.net\/?page_id=9","title":{"rendered":"Dublin Made Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Dublin Made Me<\/b><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Dublin made me and no little town<br \/>\nWith the country closing in on its streets<br \/>\nThe cattle walking proudly on its pavements The jobbers, the gombeenmen and the cheats<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Devouring the fair-day between them<br \/>\nA public-house to half a hundred men<br \/>\nAnd the teacher, the solicitor and the bank-clerk<br \/>\nIn the hotel bar drinking for ten.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Dublin made me, not the secret poteen still<br \/>\nThe raw and hungry hills of the West<br \/>\nThe lean road flung over profitless bog<br \/>\nWhere only a snipe could nest<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Where the sea takes its tithe of every boat.<br \/>\nBawneen and currach have no allegiance of mine,<br \/>\nNor the cute self-deceiving talkers of the South<br \/>\nWho look to the East for a sign.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The soft and dreary midlands with their tame canals<br \/>\nWallow between sea and sea, remote from adventure<br \/>\nAnd Northward a far and fortified province<br \/>\nCrouches under the lash of arid censure.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I disclaim all fertile meadows, all tilled land<br \/>\nThe evil that grows from it and the good,<br \/>\nBut the Dublin of old statutes, this arrogant city<br \/>\nStirs proudly and secretly in my blood.<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin Made Me Dublin made me and no little town With the country closing in on its streets The cattle walking proudly on its pavements The jobbers, the gombeenmen and the cheats Devouring the fair-day between them A public-house to half a hundred men And the teacher, the solicitor and the bank-clerk In the hotel bar drinking for ten. Dublin made me, not the secret poteen still The raw and hungry hills of the West The lean road flung over profitless bog Where only a snipe could nest Where the sea takes its tithe of every boat. 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