Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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DONNYBROOK FAIR .fi fr H6 -1 l If 1 5 - A 'Q-u:.,.d A-'V 3, -J vs wt 1 ' J QF' - 1, t,.5-'F I f '- wg W 1 ' 'w A A -G f -'s ' 9 - V L' Y in ,. , '14 ff ?-. 1. -45 ,bb Years ago, not far from Dublin, stood the little village of Donnybrook, on whose green, for a fortnight the latter part of August, there was an annual fair. Hither the whole country- slde resorted to see the fun and par tlcxpate ln the amusements chnef o whlch was dancmg Among the gally decorated booths those lor c lung xnd drmkmg were the most Important and before them during the day a few planks were land upon which the boys wlth their shlllelahs and the gurls wlth their gowns pmned up behmd them went through the dlfflcult steps of the lrnsh Jug whxle the older men and women admxrmgly looked on at the double shuffle of heel and toe ln l845 the Farr ceased to be an mstx tutlon and Donnybrook gradually developed mto one of the most charm mg and arxstnrcratlc suburbs of Dublm Tlme ldLllllCflDlhC falr and today ln place ol the drmkmg and fxghtmg of long ago nt IS famed ln song and story as a place of wrt and humor From THE HISTORY OF GOUCHER COLLEGE