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The pub has been at the centre of Irish life for centuries. It has played many roles: funeral home, restaurant, grocery shop, music venue, job centre and meeting place for everyone from poets to revolutionaries. Often plain and unpretentious, it is a neutral ground, a leveller – a home away from home.

From the feasts of high kings, through the heady gang-ruled pubs of nineteenth-century New York, right up to the gay bars and superpubs of today, this is an entertaining journey through the evolution of the Irish pub. Our ‘locals’ have become a global phenomenon: the export of the Irish pub, its significance to emigrants and its portrayal in cinema, television and literature are engagingly explored.

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ISBN/EAN 9781848892750
Author Kevin Martin
Publisher Gill Books
Imprint Collins Press
Publication date 20 May 2016
Format Paperback
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Have Ye No Homes To Go To? The History of the Irish Pub

Kevin Martin
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The story of the Irish pub is the story of Ireland itself.

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