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Donnybrook Fair
[ don-ee-brook ]
noun
- a fair which until 1855 was held annually at Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland, and which was famous for rioting and dissipation.
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To quote the words of one on board the Tiger, it was "a glorified Donnybrook Fair--whenever you see a head, crack it!"
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Cracked souls, and a Donnybrook Fair of the emotions.
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Then he "stands at ease," and relates an anecdote with the rollicking air of a horse-jockey at Donnybrook Fair.
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One is a rollicking Irishman brandishing his shillelagh over his head and trailing his coat on the ground, which is the Irishmanâs challenge for a fight at such places as Donnybrook Fair.
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Donnybrook Fair was never anything to the scene we now witnessed.
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