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Dublin
Obedientia Civium Urbis Felicitas – motto of Dublin, which translates as “The Obedience of the citizens produces a happy city”. The City’s coat of arms depicts three castle-like buildings on fire. But nobody – not even City Hall – now knows which castles they’re supposed to be, or indeed whether they’re castles at all.
According to the mayor’s website, they may just represent gates in the city wall, or watchtowers outside it. Or they may be all be the same thing – Dublin Castle – but depicted in triplicate, “because of the mystical significance of the number 3”.
Given this confusion about the crime scene, there can be little hope now of finding out who started the fires. But based on the city’s history, I suggest several possible scenarios.
It could be the wild Irish, again, attacking from outside. It could be mindless vandalism, by arsonists within. It could be the inevitable result of shoddy planning. Or it could be an insurance job (involving only one castle, probably, but depicted in triplicate to represent three claims).