Editing River Liffey (section)

==Popular culture references==
[[Image:Duclin Liffey Dark 2008.jpg|thumb|right|Liffey quays at dusk]]
[[Image:LiffeySunset.jpg|thumb|upright|The River Liffey at sunset]]
From [[James Joyce|Joyce]] to [[Radiohead]], the Liffey is often referenced in literature and song:
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|quote="riverrun, past [[Adam and Eve's, Merchant Quay|Eve and Adam's]], from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs."
|source=[[James Joyce]], ''[[Finnegans Wake]]'' (1939) (first sentence of novel).
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That is the first of a number of references to the Liffey in the [[Finnegans Wake|Wake]]: insofar as the book has characters, the female protagonist of the novel, [[Anna Livia Plurabelle]], is herself an allegory of the river.
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|quote=A skiff, a crumpled throwaway, Elijah is coming, rode lightly down the Liffey, under [[Loopline Bridge]], shooting the rapids where water chafed around the bridgepiers, sailing eastward past hulls and anchorchains, between [[the Custom House]] old dock and George's quay.
|source=[[James Joyce]], ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' (1922)
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|quote=She asked that it be named for her. – The river took its name from the land. – the land took its name from the woman.
|source=[[Eavan Boland]], ''Anna Liffey'' (1997)
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|quote=That there, that's not me – I go where I please – I walk through walls, I float down the Liffey – I'm not here, this isn't happening
|source=[[Radiohead]], ''"[[How to Disappear Completely]]" from album [[Kid A]]'' (2000)
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|quote=O'h I've seen her face and I touched a dream, And made love down by the Liffey. Flow Liffey waters, flow gently to the sea. Flow Liffey waters flow, and sing and dance for me.
|source=[[The Wolfe Tones]], ''"Flow Liffey Waters"''
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|quote="Somebody once said that 'Joyce has made of this river the Ganges of the literary world,' but sometimes the smell of the Ganges of the literary world is not all that literary."
|source=[[Brendan Behan]], ''[[Confessions of an Irish Rebel]]''
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|quote="No man who has faced the Liffey can be appalled by the dirt of another river."
|source=[[Iris Murdoch]], ''[[Under the Net]]'' (1954)
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|quote="But the Angelus Bell o'er the Liffey's swell rang out through the foggy dew."
|source=Canon Charles O'Neill, ''[[The Foggy Dew (Irish ballad)|The Foggy Dew]]''
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|quote="You can keep your Michael Flatley with his tattoos on his chest<br />
Fare thee well, Sweet Anna Liffey, it's the Ganges I love best<br />
I found a place in India so far across the foam<br />
You can call me Punjab Paddy, boys, I'm never comin' home!"
|source=[[Gaelic Storm]], ''"Punjab Paddy from album [[How Are We Getting Home?]]"'' (2004)
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|quote=Fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey, I can no longer stay<br />
I watch the new glass cages, that spring up along the quay<br />
My mind's too full of memories, too old to hear new chimes<br />
I'm part of what was Dublin in the rare ould times
|source=[[Pete St. John]], ''[[Rare Ould Times]]'' (1970s)
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[[Image:Dublin riverside composite 01.jpg|thumb|center|600px|A view upstream from [[Grattan Bridge]], towards the [[Four Courts]] (the domed building), with Essex Quay and [[Wood Quay]] on the [[Stream bed|right bank]] (left of picture) and Upper Ormond Quay on the [[Stream bed|left bank]] (right of picture).]]