Twenty-three years later, they’re making their old dreams come alive as owners of the recently-opened Blarney Irish Pub on 14th Street in Dinkytown. “It’s like that Robert Frost poem,” Mulrooney said.

‘Tis the season for green shamrocks, leprechauns, and corned beef and cabbage! Though popular in the U.S., corned beef has a “not so popular” past in relation to its Irish holiday. Cattle in Ireland ...