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| Brazen Head Pub in Dublin
"How old is this place?" and once was heard the reply, " Sure, they were serving drinks in here before a license was needed to do so".This was no idle boast, the first licensing law was not passed until 1635, but there is every possibility that the Brazen Head was in excistence some time prior to this.
Another question often asked is "How did this place get it's name?".One interesting but unreliable version goes that it was an imitation of a tavern in Limerick Called "At the sign of the Brazen Head", named after a red-headed girl who, while trying to get a better view of the siege of Limerick, lost her head to a Williamite army's cannon.But in fact the name Brazen Head was Common enough in the 1660's.
History and the Brazen Head today.
The greatest memories of the Brazen Head are those of 1798 and the years immediatly before it.Here the chiefs of the United Irishmen use to meet and relax. It was to the Brazen Head that Oliver Bond brought his new-found friend, Thomas Reynolds, to meet the men who were planning for freedom.Little did he know that Reynolds was an informer who gave the government the information that led to the arrest of almost the whole Leinster Directory, in Oliver Bond's own house at 13 Bridge Street.And so it was that the Rising lost almost all its chief at one blow.
The brazen Head was frequented at times by Robert Emmett, Wolfe Tone, Daniel O'Connell and many other notable men.When Robert Emmet stayed ther he occupied the room overlooking the passageway leading to the door of the Inn from which all the callers to the house could be observed.
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