James Joyce - Queen Elizabeth II - Roddy Doyle - Document: Radio 4 -
70,812. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. James Joyce, Dubliners, ‘The Dead’
70,813. Dear, dirty Dublin. ibid. ‘A Little Cloud’
70,814. When I die Dublin will be written in my heart. James Joyce
70,815. Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance. Queen Elizabeth II
70,816. It’s a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time. Roddy Doyle
121,088. Dublin 1916: Uniformed and armed rebels of the Irish volunteers and the Irish citizen army under James Connolly stormed into this magnificent building … New documents that we have seen do indicate that the British government had good intelligence on what was about to happen. Document: 11/03/13, BBC Radio 4