Happy St. Patrick’s Day! To honor the one day of the year when everyone is Irish, Dan takes Kevin and Dubs on a tour of traditional Irish beer styles. We discuss the characteristics that define each style and the history of brewing them on the Emerald Isle.
Irish Beer Styles

* Dry Irish stout
* Irish red ale

References
The Search for God and Guinness was written by Stephen Mansfield. You can read more about him on his website.
Shup Up About Barclay Perkins is a blog by Ron Pattinson in which he writes about brewing from a historical perspective. Here are collections of his articles about Irish stout and Irish ale.
Cider Ireland is an association of craft cider makers in Ireland. There is information about the history of cider in Ireland on their site.
The Táin
The Irish epic Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) is primary written in prose, not verse. You can learn more about it here, and the entire text is available online. Here is The Decemberists’ “The Tain,” based on the tale:

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