About 15 different blends are sold in the country. Yet what really counts in Ireland is not what you drink but where you drink it. Ireland's pubs and literature are also often one and the same thing. Davy Byrnes in Dublin is not only famous for its seafood menus but synonymous with the writer, James Joyce. Other pubs specialise in dancing and musical evenings and these events, often traditional, ring to the sound of harps, banjos or the local bagpipe, the uilleann pipe.
Pubs are part of the daily routine in Ireland.
On Friday and Saturday nights they are packed. The barman or maid must first fill three quarters of the glass and then wait a moment or two for the froth to fall, before completing the operation with a creamy head no more than a finger thick. Temperatures hover around 7 C in winter. A cashmere or mohair jumper, a tweed jacket, Celtic jewellery, a crystal object, a bottle of Jameson or Black Bush whisky, a bottle of Baileys. We'd like to hear your opinion .