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Sat 08 Aug 2008An Irishman's Diary
DURING the summer of 1853, Charles Dickens sent a writer for his magazine Household Wordsto Dublin.
The weekly journal had been set up by Dickens in 1850, and it attracted many young writers keen to bask in the glow of Dickens's unparalleled fame.
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