’Two Pints of Plain for the Bould Bloomin’ Bowsies’, by Aoife Carrigy

Take a glass-in-hand romp through a short literary history of Irish pubs and their high (and low) culture with food and drinks writer Aoife Carrigy as your guide, as she shares an eclectic depiction of the Irish pub as described by classic characters, from Bloom to Behan to Blindboy Boatclub. Aoife has an MA in Anglo-Irish Literature from UCD, where she first met Leopold Bloom. She is currently concluding post-graduate research into 'Cultural Representations of the Irish Pub’ at TU Dublin's National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies.