Word: dublins
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...much by Irish whisky as English bullets. It is this mixing of noble and ignoble motives that gives Insurrection its salty, human tang. By sticking close to the theme and laying it out in the plainest of prose styles, Author O'Flaherty gives the sharpest possible picture of Dublin bursting its buttons, its streets crisscrossed with an interweaving mob of poets, patriots, drunks, floozies, looters and sharpshooters. The result is not a great novel, nor even a very remarkable one, but it does suggest that the "Troubles" may go marching along in fiction as indomitably as the American Civil...
...than have the best practice in Harley Street," eventually turned out some 50 novels, for 30 years was one of the most popular purveyors of old-fashioned romance (The Blue Lagoon; An American at Oxford); on the Isle of Wight, where he had settled down after leaving his native Dublin...
...Dublin-born James Joyce, in Finnegans Wake, preferred his own version: "genghis is ghoon...
Although brewers said that good porter could be made only with water from London's Thames River, Arthur Guinness disagreed. In 1759, he signed a null lease on the St. James's Gate brewery in Dublin, which used spring water. While other brewmasters took advantage of porter's dark hue to hide impurities swimming around in their vats, Guinness insisted on "none but the best ingredients...
...England. It quickly became Britain's biggest advertiser. Business boomed, and it built a London brewery. In 1948 Guinness also opened a small American brewery (100,000 bbls.-a-year capacity) in Long Island City. It found New York's tap water as suitable as that from Dublin springs...