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…
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…
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…
According to an article published in the Financial Times newspaper in January 2012, ‘almost 1,000 pubs have closed since the Celtic Tiger economy peaked in 2006 and publicans warn that a further 5,000 jobs will be lost during 2012.’ But the reality today is that Irish social habits have changed irreversibly. With the recession, people…
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