immersion-Dublin Grafton Street, Homeless Female, Age 19, b.1981

This 19 year old white woman lives on Grafton Street, and sometimes gets put up in a B & B.  She talks about the plight of homeless women in Dublin, her eating disorder, and her multiple suicide attempts.  This is a very dramatic piece that has been included in a play called "Displaced," about the state of being homeless around the world.  There are comedic moments as well. We sat and drank a beer in the rain on Grafton street while a quintet of high school girls played the Pachelbel Canon, the Entertainer, Danny Boy, etc. for tourists.  Local ragamuffins she referred to as "street rats" interrupt at a certain point.

Dublin, homeless, pachelbel, Grafton Street, street kids, suicide, anorexia, female, white, young, woman, homeless women, alcoholic, survivor, Irish, Southeastern Ireland, dramatic, grafton street

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Leinster, which includes Dublin, is to the South East is the most commercial Irish dialect. It is what Americans think of as "Irish accent" due to the number of well known actors that came from there.