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How the Irish Pub Became One of the Emerald Isle's Greatest Exports
Alan Hynes grew up in Kinvara, a small Irish village in County Galway. It had one shop, a post office, a church and two pubs. When he’d go to the auction house with his father on the weekend, they’d stop into a few pubs on the 12-mile trip home. He moved …