Bing Crosby in Dublin

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Bing Crosby: I suppose all great cities have their personalities - some more unique, more distinctive than others. Clear examples in America would be, well, New York, San Francisco, New Orleans... In Ireland, surely it's Dublin. And not because it's the biggest, but because of some curious charisma, some accidental mixture of gossip and bicycles and rain and sparkling sunshine. O'Connell Street here with its buses, the River Liffey, priests, the people, Trinity College, but most of all because of the people - cheerful, keen, alert and always glad to see you. Sometimes it seems to me they're more like Americans than anyone I know. Except for the patina of age which gilds its monuments, and its churches, its buildings - well, I feel like I never left home.