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Sat 01 Jan 2010An Irishman's Diary
IT WAS THE last hour of the last day of the year: 11pm on New Year’s Eve, 1932. Crowds had begun to gather in Dublin’s Christchurch Place, writes KARL WHITNEY.
Soon, as the cathedral’s bells rang out, people would usher in the New Year, wishing one another a prosperous and peaceful 1933.
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