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Dublin's Ha'penny Bridge viewed from the Windingstair Bookstore by the River Liffey. The steel bridge connects the north and south banks of the Liffey and, in the early days, pedestrains were charged for one penny for a two-way crossing. In his Reveries over Childhood and Youth, W B Yeats writes: "I had very little money and one day the tolltaker at the metal bridge over the Liffey and a gossip of his laughed when I refused the half-penny and said, 'No, I will go round by O'Connel Bridge'". |