Dec 2, 2023
Return to The Irish Pub Contents On New Year’s Eve 1993, I had the great privilege of attending the wake of Big Bertha at the Blackwater Tavern in County Kerry. This majestic lady, a Dremon cow, had died that same morning, just three months short of her 49th birthday....
Dec 2, 2023
The economic realities were too complex for most old style pubs to survive in the new world. A fear of the breathalyser. The ban on smoking in public places. The temptation to sell one’s licence, at considerable profit, to a Dublin pub chain or European...
Dec 1, 2023
Return to The Irish Pub Contents The Bottletops I have long enjoyed a partiality for Irish pubs. The first that I recall was The Tobinstown Inn, a granite structure located on a crossroads adjoining my family farm in County Carlow. When I was 10 years old,...
Dec 1, 2023
This book is dedicated to our late friend Alex Davidson, Generosa Defunctus – Nosto Forever. When we put this book together, James and I were both newly-married thirty-somethings with bouncing baby daughters – Bella Fennell, who was born in October 2006, and Jemima...
Dec 1, 2023
Return to Contents for The Irish Pub Books Bell, Stanley, ‘The Story of Sir Robert Hart‘ (Lisburn Historical Press, 1985) Brody, High, ‘Inishkillane: Change & Decline in the West of Ireland‘ (Penguin Press, 1973) Fallon, Donal, ‘The Dublin Pub: A Social and...
