And, what though murdered and betrayed, bewept by all frail tender hearts for, Dane or dubliner, sorrow for the dead is the only husband from whom they refuse to be divorced.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
It is not the tortuous, inimical, Aristotlian-minded Dublin of James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist"-it is the Dublin of the simple-hearted dubliner: Dublin with its great grey clouds and its poising sea-birds, with its hills and its bay, with its streets that everyone would avoid and with its other streets that everyone promenades; with its greens and its park and its river-walks-Dublin, always friendly.
"Mary, Mary"
James Stephens Commentator: Padraic Colum
Sometimes in these latter days I imagine such things are changed, though I would like to think it is only an old man's fancy, as it was in the case of the dear old dubliner, who in his time had been a beaux and had reached his eightieth year.
"Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland"
Joseph Tatlow