Webpage built around materials from a book entitled The Story of the Irish Pub: an Intoxicating History of the Licensed Trade in Ireland, by Cian Molloy. http://www.hoganstand.com/general/identity/extras/inn/stories/clare.htm A fascinating description of the rules governing drinking in Ireland in earlier years, and how the populace dealt with the restrictions. Includes this description of my Clashduff (now Kilkishen) rellies: "Brother and sister, Patrick and Nancy Donnellon run the well known Donnellon's pub in Kilkishen. The pub was originally founded as a licensed grocery by their grandfather, Patrick Donnellon. He was the son of a tenant farmer but they were evicted from their small holding inClassduff, two miles from Kilkishen in the 1850's. However, the family survived and thrived and by 1870, when Patrick married Kate Corbett from Scariff, he was able to describe himself as a publican on his marriage certificate. In 1922 the pub passed on to Patrick's son, John Donnellon, when he married Ellen Flannery. They built up the business and added a bakery to the grocery. During the war of Independence, the pub was ransacked by British troops who took all the spirit bottles from the back of the bar. However, the Donnellons had the last laugh as the brandy and whiskey bottles contained only coloured water." I have a small correction to make to that description, as I have (through the generosity of Ciaran Murtchagh (spelling is not right)), the 12 Dec 1849 article in the Limerick and Clare Examiner which provided the names of those evicted on Dec. 6th, which includes my Michael Donnellan's widow and 3 children, but also Pat Donnellan's widow and 5 children, and John Donnellan's widow and 4 children, as well as the families of Thomas, Michael, and James Grace. John Donnellan's widow's brother married Bridget Grace, and the Graces were baptismal sponsors for the children of John Donnellan and Timothy Donnellan, the latter of whom was able to stay in Clashduff. Other families and locations described: Bohan's of Feakle, originally owned by the Fitzgeralds Browne's of Parteen Clarecastle pub, Daniel O'Brien to Patrick Power in 1872 Roadside Tavern, Lisdoonvarna, Pierce Creagh to Christopher Curtin in 1893 posted by Sharon Carberry