Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looking a little like 21 boxes of Smith Brothers cough drops, these sons of the Dublin working class offer a musical effect somewhat like Saturday night in a pub just before the police arrive. Bass Ronnie Drew, 33, whose voice is like nothing so much as a bullfrog with a hangover, bestraddles the line with occasional forays a mile or so off pitch. Tenor Luke Kelly, 26, gives out what might be the mating call of a rusty file. Banjoist Barney McKenna, 27, Tin Whistler Ciaron Bourke, 32, and Fiddler John Sheahan, 28, round out the onslaught with glorious disregard...
...with slickness or lack of authenticity. When the group raises the roof in praise of drinking, for example, the lads are working from personal experience: they are lip-smacking veterans of the informal hooleys and singsongs at Paddy O'Donoghue's in Merrion Row, the pub celebrated in J. P. Donleavy's The Ginger...
...Africa, Colonel Baden-Powell turned himself into just the sort of hero his country was yearning for. His own reports about his stand at Mafeking gave the folks at home a rare excuse to dance in the streets, get patriotically drunk, and sing God Save the Queen round the pub piano...
...motive Safety Committee. Campbell, writing in the A.M.A. Journal, cites one study showing that 73% of the driv ers held responsible for fatal or dis abling car crashes had been drinking enough to raise their alcohol level to more than .20% before the accidents occurred. Earlier, the Journal had pub lished a study of 83 drivers killed in single-car crashes in New York's Westchester County. Of the 83, 49% had had blood alcohol levels of .15% when they died, another 20% registered be tween...
...that may suggest a sort of Lev-ittavern, but Costick insists that the Levittavern pubs are absolutely authentic-and he obviously speaks from experience. "We know," he says, "what size the beams should be, how far the publican stands behind the bar counter, and how English pub fireplaces work...