Wednesday, 14 September 2022

Irish Pub History: "Women's Houses"

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O n Thursday the 12th of May 1898 The Kilrush Herald and Kilkee Gazette carried the following few lines: WOMEN'S PUBLIC-HOUSES Father O...
Tuesday, 30 August 2022

Irish Brewing History: Black Water - Cork's 'Great' Porter Flood

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O n Thursday the 5th of December 1850, just as the workers in the Beamish & Crawford brewery in Cork city were taking their morning brea...
Friday, 8 July 2022

Tales from a Kilkenny Brewery #1: 'The Cavalcade of Loaded Drays' ...

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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...
Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Ale Aboard? Beer Exports from Ireland in 1786

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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 ...
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Friday, 24 June 2022

Beer Myths on Beer Mats? A Closer Look at the Legendary Marketing of Smithwick's and Kilkenny Ales

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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...
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Thursday, 2 June 2022

Irish Beer History: Absinth Ale, Gill, and Women's Longing

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I n 1727 Caleb Threlkeld, an English doctor and botanist, published a small book on the wild plants growing around Dublin with the typically...
Thursday, 26 May 2022

'Immortal Lager Beer'

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  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...