An Irish landscape of boom and bust

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What would Joyce say now?

What would Joyce say now?

A bust of literary icon James Joyce sits in St. Stephen's Green, a city park decorated with statues of Irish heroes, fountains, bridges and ponds. Contemplating Ireland's recent economic rise and fall, Tully recalls Joyce's words: "If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."

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Last updated May 20 2009: 1:53 PM ET

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