Word: pub
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Patrick's Day is over. Last night may have passed in a blur of Guinness and green but today's St. Patty's festivities pale next to the alcohol binges of old. Local pub proprietors and bartenders-most from the Emerald Isle and with the accent to prove it-kept their preparations minimal for America's most notorious Irish holiday...
...Americans have co-opted the stereotypes of the reveling Irish for their own purposes. In Boston, St. Patrick's Day is celebrated mainly in pseudo-Irish bars with a younger crowd. The Harp, a generic bar across from the FleetCenter, boasts that it is "the famous Irish Restaurant and Pub in Boston, Massachusetts" but there's little Irish about this place other than Guinness and Killian's on tap. "We have sort of an Irish theme," says Stolinsky, "but our entertainment is rock and roll and we serve pretty much American food." Perhaps to cover it's faux Irish roots...
...what's the true way to tell an Irish pub from a Gaelic wannabee? Check the head on a pint of Guinness. It should be shamrock-free. "No shamrock-that's American," Delaney says. "To me, it's more important to pour a good pint of Guinness that to put a shamrock...
Sligo, with its small size and Irish regularsthat include three men from Doolin, a small Irishtown renowned for its Irish music, seems to be theepitome of the no-frills Irish pub...
While Irish bars like The Druid and The Fieldplay on customer interest in Ireland, they stillcontribute to the Hub's thriving Irish pub scene...