The previous post (at least it's the previous as I begin writing this) post has what I believe to be an early use of the term "Beer Garden" in Ireland to refer to what we're currently used to - an outdoor area, with furniture, the ability to drink beer from a pub if not full on service and possibly its own bar, and some level of covering for rain or sun shade - from summer 1953. I felt this was quite early, even if a pub garden had been a critical requirement in London for Orwell in 1946.
The term Beer Garden is obviously much, much older - it first appears on the Irish Newspaper Archives nearly a full century earlier in 1854, but it was only used as a reference to those in Germany and German-influenced areas, or somewhat insultingly - e.g. a court report on a rowdy pub referring to it as "turning in to a beer garden". So when did people start using it to refer to those spaces that we became so reliant on in 2020/2021?
The first reference I can find to the term being used by somewhere for its own facilities is from 1936 by the then Dollymount Hotel, latterly the Dollymount House which closed in about 2006.
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