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# the story of my pub

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'Monks are buried under the beer garden': The story of Franciscan Well Cork

How a monastic graveyard became one of Ireland’s first craft brewers.

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Mar 7th 2018, 4:29 PM

'It’s kind of like when you go to Tuscany and you get a nice Chianti': The Gravediggers on their €4.60 pints of Guinness

And how the landlord pranked his brother in front of Roger Moore.

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Jan 3rd 2018, 5:30 PM

'Like stepping into the 1900s': Morrissey's in Abbeyleix is a glorious time capsule

Like all good pubs, it started out as a grocery shop and shebeen.

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Dec 12th 2017, 9:29 AM