UKULELE Tuesdays -There’s another one that we can add to the list of uses for our much beloved Irish pub. Every Tuesday, upstairs at that well-known Dublin city centre watering hole, The Stags Head, they hold a session that they simply call ‘UKULELE Tuesdays’… basically a modern version of the old ‘come-all-ye’ – bring…
It was only a matter of time really, especially with newspaper headlines spouting tales of daily pub closures, decreasing footfall in our pubs and numerous other changes in our social habits. But the Irish are an ingenious lot, or so we constantly like to tell ourselves! And ladies and gentlemen, a solution has been…
Never pass a bar that has your name on it! Those immortal words, came in at number 8 on the ‘Rules of Travel’ of a certain Peter Charles McCarthy Robinson, who in 1998 wrote the wonderful book about Ireland, McCarthy’s Bar. He journeyed through the west of Ireland, from Cork to Donegal, in a hilarious…
The writing is on the wall for the humble pub quiz as well now. In a hilarious, but true piece, Sinead Moriarty writes in the Irish Independent about the death of the pub quiz as we know it. And the cause. Yes, you guessed it, the mobile phone. Well in fairness it was always…
You can find short YouTube video (3mins) at the bottom of this page which tells the story behind our site. In the video we tell the story about a guide-book, The Famous & Historical Pubs of the South-East, which we produced in 1991. It sent us down memory lane … for a while; all…
Tuesday nights are special in The Nore Bar in Kilkenny city. In this small one-storeyed bar, sandwiched unassumingly between Greens Bridge and Stephens Barracks in New Street, they make their own entertainment on Tuesdays. The bar, which was owned by the Cleere family for many years has always had a loyal clientelle who like…
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