tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post1073879260587688146..comments2024-03-28T03:54:26.782-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Irish brewery numbersRon Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-18135802806467951752011-08-02T09:16:30.202-07:002011-08-02T09:16:30.202-07:00Martyn, I do have regional figures for some years....Martyn, I do have regional figures for some years. Not sure if they are the right ones, though. Despite spending several weeks trawling through parliamentary papers.<br /><br />The brewing industry was concentrated in the larger towns in the East and the South: Dublin, Cork, Drogheda, Kilkenny, Waterford and Limerick. (Shit, the last one is in the West.) How hard were these areas hit?Ron Pattinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-80801218878981226042011-08-02T07:54:35.518-07:002011-08-02T07:54:35.518-07:00I'd really love to see those brewery figures b...I'd really love to see those brewery figures broken down to at least province level (Ulster, Leinster, Munster, Connaught), if not county: and it's very interesting that production falls off a cliff in 1840, five years before the Great Famine, and actually rose in 1846, when the Famine was getting into its stride.Martyn Cornellhttp://zythophile.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com