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(I think I saw parts 1 and 2) at the Casino cinema in Finglas and memorised some of the songs.
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As he meandered along Moore Street, Leo Behan, an elderly man from the working-class northern Dublin suburb of Finglas, griped that too many migrants were coming to Ireland and, in some cases, causing trouble.
Ireland's New Face 2007
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Mine over there towards Finglas, the plot I bought.
Ulysses 2003
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In 1716 he was made Vicar of Finglas, and after his death in 1718 Pope prepared an edition of his poems.
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A team of horses passed from Finglas with toiling plodding tread, dragging through the funereal silence a creaking waggon on which lay a granite block.
Ulysses 2003
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Finglas 'proposal for political reform involved the expansion of royal power within the Pale as a prelude to the reformation of the Irish lordship as a whole.
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Finglas revealed none of the anti-Gaelic sentiment that would characterize later Old English treatises; he criticized the inability of the ineffectual royal Irish government to suppress Gaelic law, not the degenerative influence of Gaelic culture.
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Finglas 'earlier "Breviat of the getting of Ireland, and of the Decaie of the Same"; both relied on historical frames of reference to account for deficiencies in the government of Ireland that demanded swift and comprehensive reform.
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However, while Finglas attributed these deficiencies to the neglect of the crown administration, Davies located them within the nature of the relationship between the Old English community and the crown:
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English secured the comprehensive reform of the Irish administration for which Finglas and other reformers had called.
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