New book chronicles the changing of time for the Irish pub
During our student days, not many of us got away with the line about how going to the pub was “research”. Not so for Kevin Martin.
The Westport man has just written a new book about the Irish pub called Have Ye No Homes To Go To? and explains that 20 years ago he actually wrote a master’s thesis on the cultural role of the pub in Irish society. Looking back, he didn’t feel his academic study did justice to the subject, and so he set off on his travels to right that wrong, write a book, and sup some Guinness (his preferred tipple) from a selection of the nation’s high stools.
