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Donnybrook fair

  • 16-06-2015 10:13pm
    #1
    dublinviking
    Registered Users Posts: 310 ✭✭


    a-fair-fight.jpg

    I live in Donnybrook, across from Donnybrook church. This area is today considered to be one of the nicest parts of Dublin. But this was not always the case. Until 1866, Donnybrook was the place where a notorious Donnybrook Fair was held every year in August. Donnybrook fair was so notorious for its debauchery and violence that the Oxford English Dictionary defines a donnybrook as "a scene of uproar and disorder; a riotous or uproarious meeting; a heated argument."

    You can read more here:

    http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2015/06/donnybrook-fair.html


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  • #2
    ChicagoJoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 372 ✭✭ChicagoJoe


    dublinviking wrote: »
    a-fair-fight.jpg

    I live in Donnybrook, across from Donnybrook church. This area is today considered to be one of the nicest parts of Dublin. But this was not always the case. Until 1866, Donnybrook was the place where a notorious Donnybrook Fair was held every year in August. Donnybrook fair was so notorious for its debauchery and violence that the Oxford English Dictionary defines a donnybrook as "a scene of uproar and disorder; a riotous or uproarious meeting; a heated argument."

    You can read more here:

    http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2015/06/donnybrook-fair.html
    It seems to have been the All Ireland final of faction fighting !!! Or maybe it allowed the Dublin guys to get in on the action like their country cousins :) You probably know this but for the others, the first All Ireland football final was also played in Donnybrook with Limerick beating Louth where Donnybrook bus station is now.


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