Friday, 29 September 2023

Pub Fiction: Cat, Contraption & Mechanism

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'S hoo! Git!' Cat skidded along the counter, its paws losing traction on the shiny surface as it tried to escape the flick of a clot...
Friday, 22 September 2023

100 Years of Irish Brewing in 50 Objects: #13 – Pint & ½ Pint Bottles (1920-1950s)

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T he words of the rose to the rose floated up to his mind: ‘No gardener has died, comma, within rosaceous memory.’ He sang a little song, he...
Thursday, 7 September 2023

100 Years of Irish Brewing in 50 Objects: #12 – Colonel Murphy’s Stout Beermat (1969)

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  G oodness! A rival ..! Top men at the giant Guinness brewing group must be anxiously watching a little experiment which is going on in Man...
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Wednesday, 23 August 2023

100 Years of Irish Brewing in 50 Objects: #11 – Mountjoy Brewery Cask Return Postcard (1888)

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R eturning to the larger yard, we crossed over to the cask-washing sheds constructed principally of iron and tiled roofs. […] Three thousand...
Sunday, 9 July 2023

Opinion: On Beer Twitter ...

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T he beercentric side of Twitter is for me like a favourite pub … It's one I’ve been going to for quite a while because it’s easy to rea...
Friday, 23 June 2023

100 Years of Irish Brewing in 50 Objects: #10 – The Guinness Waterford Tankard (1960s)

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B ut when a cauliflower-wigged tankard of brown stout crowned the repast, his rapture knew no bounds. He pressed it with ecstasy to his lips...
Thursday, 8 June 2023

100 Years of Irish Brewing in 50 Objects: #9 - At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (1939)

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W hen things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night – A PINT OF PLAIN ...