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There's a certain stereotype about the Irish: we're all drunks, and we favour the "boiled to death" school of cuisine.
So, based on a random comment made at the weekend and the impending visit of a friend, I cycled around for an hour yesterday counting pubs. Well, actually I cycled around for a bit first, then I started counting pubs as an amusement. In the space of its main street, Dalkey contains the following drinking establishments: The Club Bar, In Dalkey, Finnegans, The King's Inn, The Queen's (possibly The Queen's Inn), and Mc(or Mac)Donagh's. Additionally, there's a dedicated off-license, and an off-license attached to a supermarket. Given that Dalkey is a ten-minute walk from my house, I felt it necessary to research the opposite direction - towards Dun Laoghaire - where I encountered two more pubs, Eagle House and Albert House. The latter is the closest pub to my front door, being within five minutes of my front door.
On this trip, some 10km of weaving and wandering (sober) around the area, I passed more eateries than I can recall - something approaching a dozen in Dalkey alone, and another handful in Sandycove/Glasthule, and a bunch more scattered around seemingly at random. Several chinese restaurants, one Thai, one fish-and-chip shop which does the best quarterpounders I've had in a long time (although one of my local barmen tells me the Noggin Grill is better), one Italian, and several mixed-fare; at least two of the pubs do restaurant-class food, and at least two more advertise pub food in the window. Of course, any given restaurant will have an alcohol license, so add them to the list of drinking establishments mentioned above.
Thus, I submit, the stereotype needs updating: we're all WELL FED drunks.
So, based on a random comment made at the weekend and the impending visit of a friend, I cycled around for an hour yesterday counting pubs. Well, actually I cycled around for a bit first, then I started counting pubs as an amusement. In the space of its main street, Dalkey contains the following drinking establishments: The Club Bar, In Dalkey, Finnegans, The King's Inn, The Queen's (possibly The Queen's Inn), and Mc(or Mac)Donagh's. Additionally, there's a dedicated off-license, and an off-license attached to a supermarket. Given that Dalkey is a ten-minute walk from my house, I felt it necessary to research the opposite direction - towards Dun Laoghaire - where I encountered two more pubs, Eagle House and Albert House. The latter is the closest pub to my front door, being within five minutes of my front door.
On this trip, some 10km of weaving and wandering (sober) around the area, I passed more eateries than I can recall - something approaching a dozen in Dalkey alone, and another handful in Sandycove/Glasthule, and a bunch more scattered around seemingly at random. Several chinese restaurants, one Thai, one fish-and-chip shop which does the best quarterpounders I've had in a long time (although one of my local barmen tells me the Noggin Grill is better), one Italian, and several mixed-fare; at least two of the pubs do restaurant-class food, and at least two more advertise pub food in the window. Of course, any given restaurant will have an alcohol license, so add them to the list of drinking establishments mentioned above.
Thus, I submit, the stereotype needs updating: we're all WELL FED drunks.
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People just have to develop a taste for the subtleties of boiled food!
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The name of the town "Dún Laoghaire" is Gaelic and is pronounced "Doon Layr-rah" - meaning the fortress (Dún) of "Laoghaire" personal name of a 5th century Irish High King Laoghaire - meaning "calf herder").
There seems to be a lot of stuff about cows and bulls in Irish myth, which is interesting because it's pretty far from India but part of the same cultural continuum.
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"Layr-rah". Hmm. Most people hereabouts just say "Dunleary" - running the words together as if it's just a single word. Evidently the page you quoted is going for the Gaelic pronunciation.