IrishBeerHistory

K ilkenny has always been a city of events and fairs, which is a trend that has continued right to the present day with its hosting and supp...

A new online archive resource has sprung to life of late in the shape of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland , which in its own words ...

T here are two much-captured street views in the extremely photogenic city of Kilkenny, one is the view up the steps on St. Mary’s Lane that...

I n 1727 Caleb Threlkeld, an English doctor and botanist, published a small book on the wild plants growing around Dublin with the typically...

  LAGER BEER Tune - 'My Long-tailed Blue' --- I've drank of all the various taps, With which men soak their clay, From Red-eye W...

I t is said that history is written by the victors and that is certainly the case with Irish brewing history, where the need to shoe-horn ev...

I have a tedious fascination with the various terms for measures of alcohol served around Ireland in our past and have featured some previo...