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1  On that point Ireland is united.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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2  We have had too much God In Ireland.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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3  Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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4  The priests were always the true friends of Ireland.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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5  John Alphonsus Mulrennan has just returned from the west of Ireland.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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6  They were voyaging across the deserts of the sky, a host of nomads on the march, voyaging high over Ireland, westward bound.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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7  A descendant of Baldwin the First, captain Francis Forster, settled in Ireland and married the daughter of the last chieftain of Clanbrassil.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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8  He stared angrily back at the softly lit drawing-room of the hotel in which he imagined the sleek lives of the patricians of Ireland housed in calm.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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9  Side by side with his memory of the deeds of prowess of his uncle Mat Davin, the athlete, the young peasant worshipped the sorrowful legend of Ireland.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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10  He was for Ireland and Parnell and so was his father: and so was Dante too for one night at the band on the esplanade she had hit a gentleman on the head with her umbrella because he had taken off his hat when the band played GOD SAVE THE QUEEN at the end.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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11  When they had passed into the great hall and stood at the counter Stephen drew forth his orders on the governor of the bank of Ireland for thirty and three pounds; and these sums, the moneys of his exhibition and essay prize, were paid over to him rapidly by the teller in notes and in coin respectively.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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12  The grey block of Trinity on his left, set heavily in the city's ignorance like a dull stone set in a cumbrous ring, pulled his mind downward and while he was striving this way and that to free his feet from the fetters of the reformed conscience he came upon the droll statue of the national poet of Ireland.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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