Dracula, Romania and Dublin. Oh, and Coill Dubh.
By Primal Sneeze ~ January 21st, 2010. Filed under: Pub talk.
Tony popped up on the stool next me.
How’s she cutting, Sneezy? Haven’t seen ya in ages.
Ah grand, Toe. How’s things going with the band? Any pick up? If you’ll excuse the pun.
The what?
Doesn’t matter. Are yez busy at all these days.
No. Fek all happening. Played last night. Wedding. Good gig. Wild crowd.
It all helps.
Yeah. Hey, guess what? I was talking to this Romanian lad at it and you’ll never guess, but he told me Transylvania is a real place. Isn’t that mad stuff?
Well not really, Toe. Transylvania’s been in existence for a couple of thousand years.
Has it? Well anyway, this lad told me that’s the place with the castle in Dracula and now get this – the idea for Dracula came from another lad years ago who used ram spikes into lads.
You mean Vlad the Impaler.
Could be. Think that’s what the Romanian lad called him. Sounded like Lad the Something. But listen, this gets better. The lad who wrote the film was from Dublin. From somewhere just outside the Phoenix Park.
Bram Stoker, Toe. Stoker wrote the book. I can’t remember where exactly he was from but I’m certain it wasn’t near the Park.
It was. The lad at the wedding told me. Begins with C. Like Coill Dubh. He might have said Coill Dubh.
Coill Dubh is a long way from the Phoenix Park. And it’s in Kildare, not Dublin. I think we can safely say Bram Stoker wasn’t from Coill Dubh.
Hold on! I have it – Clontarf. He was from Clontarf.
Ah here, Toe. Clontarf is way, way, way outside the Park.
Yeah. But not as far away as Coill Dubh so I was right.
bar talk is the same all over the world, sugar. it’s “y’all ain’t gonna believe this…” followed by a nonsensical story that always has some tiny grain of truth to it here. but, i do like the way your man ended his story. xoxoxo
Yeah. His logic in ending the story was unreal. I am used to it – his thought process has always worked like that.
I went to school in St Pauls which was officially in Raheny (that lovely parish from where I hailed) but technically Clontarf – anyways all I gots to say is they were all bloody vampires and impalers in Clontarf so Toe is on the money
Indeed. Parts of Dublin have a history of flourishing vampire populations. Though these days the blood suckers are mainly to be found in the area of Kildare Street.
Ah how I miss these kind of conversations in Irish pubs!
Yeah. True. You have to love the Mensa types.