Another Reason Not To Let Minors Into Bars

Dirty pictures on the ceilings. Who knew?

Bostonist knows that we can't always have top-notch gourmet fare when we lunch downtown with coworkers. In fact, we almost never do, settling in most cases for convenience. So it was that, despite having expressed apprehension about the Kinsale in the past, we found ourselves dining there on Wednesday: The weather was cold and the Kinsale was close. On prior visits to this pseudo-Irish establishment, we've aimed for the very back of the joint, since there is no better place for dedicated drinking than a dark, oaken nook. On Wednesday, however, we came to eat, and took a table on the raised platform at the front of the joint. It was there that we discovered a hidden, um, treasure of local art (pictured at right, thanks to a friend's camera phone). There, painted on the ceiling in such a way as to be visible from only a few tables, we spied what our waiter called a "Celtic battle scene," and what we call, well dirty (seriously - this photo may not do it justice, but in person the painting seems unmistakably to depict the sort of activity that once got Bill Clinton in trouble) (not questionable real estate transactions; the other activity). Neither the waiter nor a manager-looking guy, who smiled and shrugged, could offer any explanation for this suggestive set-up other than to say it is based on an Irish myth. So we put it to you, dear readers: Is there any (PG-rated) explanation for this pose? Or is there a very saucy legend in the history of the Emerald Isle?