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![]() ![]() Naturally, decent citizens everywhere were outraged. ![]() It gets on my nerves," the Sunday Tribune in Dublin reported him saying. It's as if you're encroaching on his area or it's a given that he's on your shoulder. The whole idea that he owns language as it is spoken in Dublin is a nonsense. ![]() A few days before the annual Bloomsday celebration in 2004, he had the temerity to suggest that the Dublin Joyce industry is rather tacky, that Ulysses "could have done with a good editor" and that it's annoying for Irish writers like him to be forever compared to Joyce: "If you're a writer in Dublin and you write a snatch of dialogue, everyone thinks you lifted it from Joyce. A few years ago, Roddy Doyle found himself swirling around in a teacup storm. ![]()
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