Dublin Pub Lore Oral History

Subject: RE: Dublin Pub Lore Oral History
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 12:38 PM

Not only is the oral tradition of the Dub pubs fascinating, it is still alive and well. Dubliners will often decide where to meet for a drink based upon who they are meeting, what their professional background is, and what the pub is known for, ie for attracting a music crowd, or a literary crowd, or the legal crowd, or the biz/developer crowd, that sort of thing. It really is an amazing and fascinating phenomenon.

Subject: Dublin Pub Lore Oral History
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 12:30 PM

Dublin Pub Life and Lore: An Oral History by Kevin C. Kearns is an interesting read for many reasons, not the least of which are varius discussions by publicans and patrons on the personalities and habits of Kavanagh, Behan, O'Brien and others, including the assertion by a barman who claims Kavanagh told him the woman in Raglan Road was the wife of a Government Minister, I think. (I'll look through it again and see if it says anymore) I'd recommend the book to all to read, with a few tears for all that has been lost with change, especially the old recipe barrel-aged Guiness that every old timer in the book rhapsodises about. 'The likes of which will not be seen (nor drunk!) again.'