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I've been waiting for years for Donnybrook to show up in AWAD, because I grew up in that Dublin suburb -- a much more sedate place in the late 20th Century than when the infamous Fair was in its heyday. Like most Irish place-names, Donnybrook is an Anglicized version of its Irish name, Domhnach Broc (pronounced DHOW-nakh BRUK), meaning Broc's Chapel. Broc was, presumably, one of Ireland's innumerable Saints, another Irish phenomenon that -- like Donnybrook Fair -- belongs in the past.
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