34 (40) An Overstrained Dublin At last we arrived in Dublin, a city crowded with people, cars, couches and trucks. The city has changed in the past seven years from a quite restful capital with small-town atmosphere to a swarming ant-hill, a stressful centre of a developing economy. There are one million people in Dublin, half of them under 25 years old. We checked in at a hotel on Talbot Street, some blocks away from the crossing between O'Connell Street and East Street. A short stroll took us to that intersection where you both may find the General Post Office, the centre of the rebellion in 1916, and the statue of the author James Joyce, who in spite of his great ability never received the Nobel Prize.   33 35 First published: Friday 20th December, 2002 Send a to the author! You may also use this form