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.
donnybrook.

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The spirit of Donnybrook Fair is there today as much as ever, and wherever you see a head, hit it, would be home rule.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 | Elbert Hubbard
He picked it up at Donnybrook Fair, and applied it practically in his present predicament.
The Harlequin Opal, Vol. 2 (of 3) | Fergus Hume
A head in this creek to-day is like a head at Donnybrook Fair, anybody will hit it if it is possible to do so.
An Undivided Union | Oliver Optic
Do you mind that shtick—big enough to sarve as a respictable shillalah at Donnybrook Fair?
In the Pecos Country | Edward Sylvester Ellis (AKA Lieutenant R.H. Jayne)
Where has the pugilistic hilarity of the Irish scope as at Donnybrook Fair?
The Collector | Henry T. Tuckerman

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