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Sat 11 Nov 2009A roaring trade for centuries
ROARING FIRES heated the coffee and warmed the rooms of Dublin’s many coffee houses in the 18th century.
The coffee houses were essentially a male preserve, although women were often proprietors and servers. Mrs Joyce kept The Globe in Essex Street in the 1730s and Mrs Carterwright, wife of George Carterwright, ran The Custom House Coffee-House in 1730.
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