{"id":60822,"date":"2025-10-04T11:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T11:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/60822\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T11:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T11:31:07","slug":"the-secret-histories-of-dublins-pubs-id-see-con-houlihan-here-and-there-especially-in-the-early-houses-hed-drink-that-bizarre-combination-of-brandy-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/60822\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret histories of Dublin\u2019s pubs: \u2018I\u2019d see Con Houlihan here and there \u2013 especially in the early houses. He\u2019d drink that bizarre combination of brandy and milk\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nA social and cultural history of Dublin as seen through a pint glass, Donal Fallon\u2019s new book delves into the stories behind 176 of the city\u2019s finest watering holes. The historian takes John Meagher on a pub crawl around some of them&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Donal Fallon at The Palace. Photo: Ruth Medjber.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/c7ee0036-bf33-4f0e-8545-f7feb35d6733.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Donal Fallon at The Palace. Photo: Ruth Medjber.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It is a sunny Sunday afternoon in the heart of Dublin, but dark clouds threaten rain. Ideal weather, some might say, for a pub crawl of some of the city\u2019s great watering holes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The historian Donal Fallon knows more than most about the capital\u2019s original third spaces. He jokes that he has spent an inordinate amount of time in pubs like Grogan\u2019s, The Lord Edward, and his namesake, Fallon\u2019s, and he\u2019s also written a book \u2013 The Dublin Pub \u2013 that is a veritable love letter to the institution. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A social and cultural history of Dublin as seen through a pint glass, Donal Fallon\u2019s new book delves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,280],"class_list":{"0":"post-60822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-john-meagher"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}