Ebook: Have Ye No Homes to Go To?

Cover; Title Page; About the author; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: The Dublin Literary Pub Crawl; 1. High Kings, Saints and Alewives: The Pub in Ireland from the 6th to the 17th Century; 2. Clean Cocks and Fresh Newspaper: The Development and Regulation of the Irish Pub from the 17th to the 20th Century; 3. Whipping the Herring: Temperance and the Pub in 19th-Century Irish Society; 4. Special Exemptions: Spirit Grocers, Early Houses and Bona Fides; 5. Trad Sessions, Bombs, and Gay Bars: The Irish Pub in the 20th Century; 6. 'Neurotic and Mercurial': Alcohol and the Irish.;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.