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Donnybrook fair
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Definition:an annual fair that was once held in the district of Donnybrook, Dublin. It started in 1204, but by the mid 1800's it became more of an annual fortnight of drunken revelry. Now an eponym for a brawl or chaos in general.
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BLOOM: (Blushes furiously all over from frons to nates, three tears filling from his left eye) Spare my past.
THE IRISH EVICTED TENANTS: (In bodycoats, kneebreeches, with Donnybrook fair shillelaghs) Sjambok him!
James Joyce. Ulysses
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It was odd that the literary festival should be turned into a Donnybrook fair, but so it was when I was a boy, and the tents and the shows and the crowds on the Common were to the promiscuous many the essential parts of the great occasion.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. Over the Teacups (1891)
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