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...

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