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In 1204 King John granted leave to the Dublin Corporation to hold an eight day fair at Donnybrook, commencing on May 3rd.
Henry 111 in 1252 extended it to fifteen days. Later the date was changed to August 26th.
Pleasant Ned Lysaght wrote this of the fair:-
"Who has e'er had the luck to see Donnybrook Far?
An rishman, all in his glory, is there.
With his spring of Shillelah and shamrock so green,
His clothes spick and span, new, without e'er a speck
A neat Barcelona tied round his white neck
He goes to ta tent, and he spends half a crown
He meets with a fried, and for love knocks him down
With his sprig of shillelah and shamrock so green!.
A Prince Puckler Muskau visited the fair on Aug. 29th 1828 and described it thus:-
"The fair at Donnybrook is a kind of popular festival. The poverty, the dirt and the wild tumult, were so great as the flee and merriment with which the cheapest pleasures were enjoyed. There were many hundred tents, all ragged, like the people, and adorned with dirty rags instead of flags. A third part of the public lay, or rather rolled, about drunk; others ate, screamed, shouted and fought".
No wonder the self-respecting Corporation wished to have the Fair discontinued. This was done in 1859, when the patent under which the Fair was held was purchased for £3000.
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