Another Irish Export

Donnybrook is the term for a particularly rough brawl or fracas, and is an especially frequent feature of ice hockey. It turns out it's named for a suburb of Dublin, once the location of the Donnybrook Fair. Held from the reign of King John onward, it became famous far and wide for drunken brawling and violent disorder until it was banned in 1855. Today the good folks of Donnybrook take pains to erase any indication of their rowdy past. No such luck in professional hockey, where the governing body makes a very public display of disapproval each time there's a brawl resulting in serious injury, but shows no inclination to end the practice. Wink, wink.