Though for long it was assumed that Joyce’s Leopold Bloom was not based on a Dubliner, he may have been based on ‘Altman the Saltman’, a Republican and prominent Jew, of Usher’s Quay
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Paul Durcan’s soft comicverse is mostly indistinguishable from whimsy
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The disgracefully slow intellectual
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The internet is largely dead
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Regulators in the UK and Ireland are
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Both smug and static, Ireland thinks of itself as upwardly mobile; Britain is traumatised by post-industrial decline
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CETA’s investor-court system could let Canadian-backed investments sidestep Ireland’s new FDI-security screening — creating legal and economic risks.
