IrishBeerHistory

© The Trustees of the British Museum F rom stumbling around in the local history of pubs, taverns and inns I'd previously come across me...

C hildhood memory is a curious thing... For most of us it's full of the selective memory of summer sunshine, the smell of hot ...

W orking in a brewery in the 19th century probably wasn't an easy task given the heat, physical work itself and the varied workload. Ha...

(Tweet-to-Blog-Conversion-Project) B ack in March 2017 I posted these tweets... 'G uinness depot on the Barrow in Carlow - late ...

A s I've mentioned previously , Carlow was a pretty cosmopolitan and prosperous place back in the 1800s and here's a nice advert fr...

W ay back in 1799, Saunders's Newsletter carried an advertisement for Carlow Ale, available from Grand Canal Harbour in Dublin for...

STRENGTH OF LIQUORS - The liquor which contains most of the pure spirit of alcohol is Scotch whiskey [ sic ], being upwards of fifty-fou...

I tweeted this previously but I felt it needed a more permanent position on the web, as it's the first mention I've come across in...

I jumped ahead 50 years in my research out of an interest in seeing how the paper I am currently trawling through - The Carlow Sentinel ...

To Brewers, Retailers of Beer, Ale, Cider, &c. A BRILLIANT ARTICLE IN A FEW HOURS. THE ADVERTISER has invented FININGS that will...

W hen we last met Henry Birkett  in 1842 he was having a bit of a to-do with Guinness regarding the quality of their porter, and as I tr...

C arlow in 1842 was a busy and prosperous place. The streets were full with shoppers day and night and with travellers from the excellent c...

M y Tuesday mornings have become predictable... At 9am I grab a coffee at the optimistically - but in truth accurately - named Tea ...

Y esterday I had my first taste of trawling through microfilm in the local library - an eye-wearying but interesting task. My subject was ...