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Crescent College in Popular Culture

  • Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt's memoir of growing up in Limerick in the 1930s and '40s, references the school.

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    On me your voice falls as they say love should,
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    Is where your speech alone is understood.
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    When first the college rolls receive his name,
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    Cynicism makes things worse than they are in that it makes permanent the current condition, leaving us with no hope of transcending it. Idealism refuses to confront reality as it is but overlays it with sentimentality. What cynicism and idealism share in common is an acceptance of reality as it is but with a bad conscience.
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