Image from r/memes, username deleted. There is no historian, only Zuul. And like the 1984 Ghostbuster’s demonic entity, they too control who gets through the door. And with that reference I have ab…

Series 2 of ‘Dublin’s Hidden Histories’, a collaboration between the Trinity Long Room Hub, Near FM and Unit18 (Trinity in the Community).

Hello Friends, I’m working on book number three- yay! And I’ve been trying to figure out what to write on my blog for, well, ages, because writing a book is a sort of all-consuming beast, which I l…

On Thursday the 12th of May 1898 The Kilrush Herald and Kilkee Gazette carried the following few lines: WOMEN'S PUBLIC-HOUSES Father O'Leary, for nin

Don’t mind the dead body in the back. Katherine Blomiley wasn’t one to let a little thing like a corpse deprive her of liberating customers from their ill-gotten gains. Not even her mother-in-law’s…

Don’t mind the dead body in the back. Katherine Blomiley wasn’t one to let a little thing like a corpse deprive her of liberating customers from their ill-gotten gains. Not even her mother-in-law’s…

Rising living costs and changes to alcohol taxation influence drinking behaviours. This study aimed to examine associations between financial hardship…

My love affair with pubs started in Staines. It’s where I found my tribe—the pub as an expression of individuality, an alternative to bland Britain. But I was afraid at first. In 1996, my British-Asi...

Alt: a cartoon of a witch flying on a broom with the words woohoo below her .

Alt: a cartoon of a witch flying on a broom with the words woohoo below her .

Did Medieval female beer brewers really inspire the modern day image of witches, from pointy hats to cauldrons, and black cats to broom sticks? Beer historian Dr. Christina Wade has the answers in thi...

Professor Timothy Stott and his team are inviting applications to doctoral research on the heritage of Trinity East in Grand Canal Dock, Dublin.

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Christina Wade’s new history of Irish beer is a masterclass in social and economic history. In the context of Dublin, it tells us a lot, especially about the challenges that faced breweries in turbule...