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Great to have a name on the Skerries Brewery.

Very interesting to know that the Sweetman's moved up to the Liberties, the industrial end of town, from Stephen's Green. Coyne reproduces an ad from 1780 advertising Sweetman's Porter Brewery of 81 St Stephen's Green.

Excellent! Hmm, so when did they move...? They had certainly moved by the 1830's.

This is the thing about this project. There are so many detailed strands that can be followed. We'll have to see what can be done about that <!-- s;) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s;) --> Shhh...

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28 Feb 1989: Preparations for the opening of Mother Redcap's Tavern
[quote:evmj66w7]Originally the bar was to be called Mr Sweetman's Brewery because the road outside was called Sweetman's Lane.[/quote:evmj66w7]

Edit: Dáil debate[/url:evmj66w7] on Guinness's closing of Perry & Sons, Rathdowney Co, Laois, 11 October 1966.

This is great work guys. I look forward to seeing the results on a map. I have a feeling this could be an ongoing project though so try to get a nap now and again <!-- s;) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s;) -->

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&amp;quot;TheBeerNut&amp;quot;:2h5kvuwj wrote: Edit: Dáil debate[/url:2h5kvuwj] on Guinness's closing of Perry & Sons, Rathdowney Co, Laois, 11 October 1966.[/quote:2h5kvuwj]

[quote:2h5kvuwj]Dr. Hillery: I will answer the question which the Deputy asked when he interrupted and when he should not have interrupted. The Deputy is assuming that the Government should take away the rights of a private company to close down. If the Deputy wants to argue, we must have a framework in which to argue. Is he promoting the idea that the Government should prevent a firm from closing down or does he want to make whipping boys of Ministers? I am aware that if a firm is extending or closing down, they have every right, in our economy, to do so. Is the Deputy suggesting that the Government take the right of preventing them closing down?

Mr. O'Leary: Yes.[/quote:2h5kvuwj]
Wonderful stuff, as always the best comedians are to be found in the Dáil.

From the same Dáil debate:

[quote:1jsti7id]Mr. O'Leary: I have been trying to get in for some time. Is the Minister aware—as Minister for Industry and Commerce, he must have known this —that one of the problems is that a large firm was involved in the take-over here? Is he aware that the unions involved in this are not satisfied? They have complained that large-scale firms are taking over industries, especially breweries, in this country. Is the Minister aware that Messrs. Guinness who have taken over this brewery, have also given an unofficial sounding to Messrs. Smithwicks in Kilkenny that there will be large-scale closing down of breweries in this country? Is the Minister further aware that many trade unions feel that what has happened in Rathdowney — what is euphemistically known as rationalisation of industry—is likely to take place?[/quote:1jsti7id]

And we're still recovering...

This just in:

Sat, 2 March 1861

Court of Bankruptcy and Insolvency
In the matter of Thomas Francis Reade and Richard Arthur Reade of Ardee Street in the city of Dublin, brewers, trading as Reade Bros., bankrupts.

To be sold at auction on Tuesday 5th March 1861 all the estate, title and interest of the bankrupts.

The purchaser will be entitled to the following:
1 8-horse-power condensing steam engine and boiler, complete.
1 cast-iron sky cooler, containing 300 barrels.
2 brewing coppers, containing each 60-70 barrels.
1 set of three-throw 6-inch water pumps, with crank rods and pipes.
1 pair metal rollers in frames, and gearing.
1 set of elevators and hopper for grinding, and malt screen.
1 wood mash tun, with machine and false bottom for 60 barrels.
Same for 20 barrels.
(Each mash tun has a revolving copper sparger driven by engine.)
1 under back and pipes, and cocks to each mash tun.
Gearing from engine to drive the above machine.
1 wood hop-back, with metal false bottom containing 60 barrels.
Spring well in brewery yard, 200 feet deep, with metal pump and gearing.
1 large cast-iron wort cooler, and 1 wooden cooler with 2 fans.
1 set of wort cooling copper pipes, pumps and metal cistern.
Reilly's patent refrigerator, with cocks and pipes to tuns.
5 fermenting tuns, with copper tempering pipes.
Copper and lead pipes and cocks, leading to and from tuns through store house.
1 hand pump and lead pipes in tun room.
1 wood settling back, containing 800 barrels and pump.
Number of brass cocks, copper, lead, and metal pipes connected.
9 vats containing from 35 to 65 barrels each.
2 small vats, containing about 8 barrels each.
1 patent cask cleaning machine, and driving gear.
2 wood vessels in back yard, for liquor for scalding casks.
3 timber malt bins and a separator.

The brewery is in perfect working order, capable of doing a large business, and on a very small outlay this concern would nearly do double its present work; the quantity of drink made therein for the last year amounted to 11,000 barrels.

Your very own turn-key Victorian brewery. Beat that, Silenus.