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Do Go On

215 - The Dublin Whiskey Flood and other Irish Tales

Do Go On

Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke

History, Comedy, Fact, Facts

4.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

In 1875 a whiskey flood (and fire) caused havoc on the streets of Dublin, hear all about it as well as a great Irish art theft and one of the most famous and kooky Irish singers of all time on this week's jam packed episode!


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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:


The Dublin Whiskey Flood

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/the-night-a-river-of-whiskey-ran-through-the-streets-of-dublin-1.2743517

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/dublin-whiskey-fire

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/deadly-drink-fanned-the-flames-of-1875-296142.html

https://comeheretome.com/2014/04/09/the-1875-liberties-whiskey-fire/

https://www.independent.ie/life/1875-when-the-streets-of-the-liberties-ran-with-piping-hot-whiskey-35034342.html


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0:00.0

This episode of Do-Go-On is brought to you by the remaining dates of our UK tour.

0:07.6

There are very limited tickets still available for our Birmingham show and for our London

0:13.6

Matanay show.

0:14.6

So if you are in the area and you want to come and get tickets, head over to dogoonpod.com.

0:21.2

And also this will be your last chance for quite a while because we won't be coming back

0:25.2

to the UK next year just to add a layer of guilt there as well.

0:30.0

We've checked the calendar and it is jam packed.

0:34.1

We're busy.

0:35.1

We've got jam making classes.

0:37.6

We've got packing classes.

0:39.1

I need a few lessons.

0:45.1

And we're going on the trip.

0:47.1

We're going to ride our bicycles.

0:49.1

Yeah, absolutely.

0:50.1

We're going to have to have some.

0:52.4

So yeah, definitely come to those shows if you want to because it will be your last

0:56.7

chance for a little while.

0:57.7

That's this coming Sunday and Monday.

1:00.1

And if you want to go and see the best stand-up comedy that the world has to offer, probably

1:05.6

look it up on Google or something.

1:07.2

But if you want to come see May do stand-up comedy, I'm doing a show in London at the

1:10.8

Bill Murray on the 7th of December.

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