Donnybrook Fair
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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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In the center and on the flanks a Donnybrook Fair began.
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So their instructors thought up a game that looked something like a Donnybrook Fair but was actually the offspring of two respectable sports: basketball and boxing.
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Compared with Greenwich Hospital or Wheatley's Donnybrook Fair, the watercolors of Louis Thomas Francia, Peter de Wint, and the great Joseph Mallord William Turner seem to have been dipped in the atmosphere.
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McWilliams' solution is as simple and drastic as a bog-oak shillelagh, as controversial as a Donnybrook Fair.
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The seats were all taken out of the high school hall and the big room became the scene of a Donnybrook Fair on St. Patrick's Day.
From Ethel Morton's Holidays by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)
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