The following is an extract from the book ‘Have ye no homes to go to? The history of the Irish pub’ by Kevin Martin. Dunlop recounted the ‘ludicrous tradition’ prevalent among butchers in Dublin called ‘whipping the herring’. On the last Saturday of Lent, one of their number dresses in sheepskin, to […]
read moreThere’s a new book out about the history of the Irish pub. We don’t know too much about it yet as we haven’t got a copy, but we assumed you would all like to know about it. We’ll do a review once we’ve read it. The book is written by Kevin Martin from Westport […]
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