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1  An Irish country practice is better.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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2  Now you talk against the Irish informers.
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3  I'm an Irish nationalist, first and foremost.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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4  The Irish fellows in Clark's gave them a feed last night.
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5  In heart you are an Irish man but your pride is too powerful.
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6  His nurse had taught him Irish and shaped his rude imagination by the broken lights of Irish myth.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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7  The tall consumptive student and Dixon and O'Keeffe were speaking in Irish and did not answer him.
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8  Cranly's speech, unlike that of Davin, had neither rare phrases of Elizabethan English nor quaintly turned versions of Irish idioms.
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9  It was like the image of the young priest in whose company he had seen her last, looking at him out of dove's eyes, toying with the pages of her Irish phrase-book.
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10  The Europe they had come from lay out there beyond the Irish Sea, Europe of strange tongues and valleyed and woodbegirt and citadelled and of entrenched and marshalled races.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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11  Mr Dedalus lingered in the hall gazing about him and up at the roof and telling Stephen, who urged him to come out, that they were standing in the house of commons of the old Irish parliament.
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12  Trudging along the road or standing in some grimy wayside public house his elders spoke constantly of the subjects nearer their hearts, of Irish politics, of Munster and of the legends of their own family, to all of which Stephen lent an avid ear.
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13  He smiled as he thought of the god's image for it made him think of a bottle-nosed judge in a wig, putting commas into a document which he held at arm's length, and he knew that he would not have remembered the god's name but that it was like an Irish oath.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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14  Coupling this ambition with the young man's humour Stephen had often called him one of the tame geese and there was even a point of irritation in the name pointed against that very reluctance of speech and deed in his friend which seemed so often to stand between Stephen's mind, eager of speculation, and the hidden ways of Irish life.
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