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Thursday 18 April 2024
100 Years of Irish Brewing in 50 Objects: #20 - The Harp Magazine (1963)
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A TELEPHONE shrills in the Brewery Fire Brigade night quarters at 84 James's Street. “There's been an accident.” “Where?” “In the b...
Friday 22 March 2024
100 Years of Irish Brewing in 50 Objects: #19 - Arnott’s Prize Medal Porter Ghost Sign c.1890
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“T his stout is of full Alcoholic Strength, and possesses great body, as shown by the proportions of Malt Extract present. It is quite free ...
Thursday 7 March 2024
100 Years of Irish Brewing in 50 Objects: #18 - ‘International Bar’ Half-Pint Tankard (c. 1902)
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… t o run “as dim eyed animals do, towards any glittering object, were it but a scoured tankard, and mistake it for a solar luminary” … Mem...
Friday 16 February 2024
100 Years of Irish Brewing in 50 Objects: #17 – Time 'Pilsner' Glass (1960s)
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T here’s pleasure in a glass of beer When hard by work opprest; It soothes the brain with thought o’ertaxed, And sets the mind at rest. Its ...
Wednesday 31 January 2024
100 Years of Irish Brewing in 50 Objects: #16 – Cairnes Brewery Invoice (1940)
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I last tasted (and swallowed every drop) a glass of Drogheda strong ale, and if any of my readers in Ireland or England or any where else do...
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Thursday 21 December 2023
Of Lovers & Libations
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P inpricks of light wink and twinkle in the milky smear that runs across the night sky. In the distance yellow light brightly glows through ...
Thursday 7 December 2023
100 Years of Irish Brewing in 50 Objects: #15 – Murphy Stout Label (1960s?)
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T ypography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is cal...
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