Book review: The Irish pub: Evolving and reinvented itself through time

Consisting of 20 scholarly but accessible essays, the book explores its subject through the prism of history, design, sociology, literature, and psychology

Brendan Gleeson in a stage production of Conor McPherson’s ‘The Weir’, where the pub serves as a refuge for the play’s five central characters. File picture: Rich Gilligan

• The Irish Pub: Invention and Reinvention
• Moonyoung Hong and Perry Share
• Cork University Press, €59