Post pictures of far-flung Irish pubs here

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Grand Khaan Irish Pub, Ulaan Bataar.

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'Bubbles O'Leary's', Kampala

http://www.ukraine-accommodation.com/i/irish_pub.jpg

I'm assuming the O' isn't commonplace in Ukranian.

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Luxor, Egypt

I've been to Mick O'Neill's in Odessa.

A while ago i was considering trying to set up an Irish bar in some obscure part of Russia but couldn't find anywhere that didn't already have one.

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Vienna, Austria

I went here to watch Man U vs Arsenal and there were about twenty Indians watching the Indian Premier League at the back of the pub, loudly cheering on their team. I have rarely felt myslef in so cosmopolitan a setting.

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Dubai Airport. I especially like the 'Established 1755' on the side.

45 Nguyen Truong To, Ba Đình, Hanoi

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the quiet mon pub, st. john, usvi

one in dublin airport surely not that far flung, tho technically prob not on irish soil iirc

Hong Kong

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That last one is amazing.

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flahertys in las ramblas, barcelona. caught a good bit of WC 2006 here

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http://cdn1.rio.com/wp-content/uploads/shenanigans-pub-rio-de-janeiro.jpg

^^^ Rio. A+++ name there.

http://www.downunderwines.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ned_kelly_bar_muc-300x225.jpg

^ k*l*ans irish pub featuring ned kelly's australian bar, münchen

"fire hose reel" my fave clancy brothers number, by the way.

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the perseverance. far-flung london.

god be with ye all abroad over there obv

there is a Shenanigans near me in Brooklyn
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Bali

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#shenanigans

#shenanz

#shenantz

The FaceBeat

#shanter

Phuket

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Kuala Lumpur

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I was just about to post that one cause it's in my hometown lol. And it's a chain, too. Here's another one in the Malaysian state of Perak:

http://www.journeyipoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Healy-Macs-Irish-Bar-Restaurant-Greentown-Ipoh-1-300x199.jpg

absolutely gutted that shenandoah hasnt a shenanagans

St Patrick's Day tat really is the same the world over.

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Cuzco

its different, back home (plays haunting air on the uileann pipes)

On the same row as Healy Mac's in KL:

http://www.timeoutkl.com/uploadfiles/image/Venues/Food/Big/finnegans.jpg

finnegan's is a pure made-up name, should be finnanegans obv

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Who the hell would visit Venice and think to themselves 'now what this place really needs is an Irish Pub'?

that looks like a great pub tho nick

hard to tell really, but any serious boozer with a canal 4ft from the front door is pretty classic tbf

Quite why they need an Irish bar in Ghent I don't know, but I have been there and watched Crystal Palace win the play offs

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lol yeah what Nick said basically!

The biggest pub in Odense, Denmark is this place, again with wall to wall British football

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/03/d0/55/d3/ryan-s-of-odense.jpg

apparently there are one or two in the boston area. i found an interior shot:

http://guestofaguest.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kiss-me-im-irish-st-patricks-day-at-finn-mccools-irish-pub.jpg

^^^ Boston IRL

Old Town Square, Prague. To be honest I've avoided going in the times I have visited Prague.

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Who the hell would visit Venice and think to themselves 'now what this place really needs is an Irish Pub'?

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh *raises hand*

... tho, tbh, it doesn't have to be Irish, just a pub

There are so many Irish pubs in Rome, it's a bit odd.

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Almaty, Kazakhstan

Ones I have been in:

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http://img01.beerintheevening.com/4a/4aa6d518653d7f80a967690e639690c3.jpg

http://www.vegas.com/nightlife/bars/las-vegas-strip/nine-fine-irishmen/ninefine.jpg

It's the ones in places with genuinely great beer (Prague, Ghent etc) that are really unforgiveable.

I've been to Mick O'Neill's in Odessa.

I will forever mourn the closure of Nic Nowego in Krakow, though not the Irish Car Bomb on the menu.
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My uncle worked in one of these: http://www.mcgettigansdubai.com/

spent a lot of time in one in haifa called the bear but can't find good pics of it

that pub in caanes looks like an actual decent bar that i'd go to in ireland

where was i lately

yes, brogans' in poznan

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no point reviewing it, i couldn't give a fair review of my own local if i'd only visited there when it was stuffed with travelling fans fighting goodnaturedly

lol @ happy 16th march above tho

i want to say "god fuck all these stupid fucking assholes who start or frequent all these dumb-ass far-flung irish pubs" but would that be as tiresome as the pubs themselves?

― marcos

i think it probably would, sorry.

most of them are rubbish pubs, yeah. most pubs i've ever been are rubbish tho. ime these places are not any worse than the standard local fayre, if you don't fetishize that.

nb- i would not tend to visit these places while away or anything.

nb^2- pubs in ireland are actually great tho

another poznan effort, The Dubliner, was pretty good actually.

http://www.inyourpocket.com/gallery/item_42176.jpg

pubs in britain and ireland, ime, are pretty good. it's a culture i'd miss if i lived in other parts of the world.

Oh absolutely. The country I've been to that gets it closest is Australia, and they don't do them quite right.

Czech Republic has a proper pub culture too, though again it's not quite the same

By 'right' I mean what I'm used to, obviously.

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Hu Li's

I actually really really want to go to the one in Luklu, Nepal.

i think irish bars are a good place to seek out the most disgusting expats in any farflung place you might be.

shavenhead australian sex tourist enjoying expensive hamburgers, watching soccer game originally broadcast the day before, giving theories on the key flaw of whatever country he has found himself in, drinking carlsberg.

it's just like home tbrr

i met an irish guy at hooley's once. he was wearing a purple vest, told me about his trick for picking up colombian prostitutes at a discounted rate after the bars close and a joke about a woman that put a seashell between her legs and the punchline was something like, "hey, i can smell the ocean, too." first irishman i ever met.

The ones in SE Asia are generally like that. The ones in South America tend to be fine, loads of locals drinking it up in there.

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pubs in britain and ireland, ime, are pretty good. it's a culture i'd miss if i lived in other parts of the world.

True. Although the best/worst examples in this thread are nothing like actual pubs, almost comically so.

If I was home I would spend a weekend day walking around Sydney taking photos for this thread.

Walked past this one on way to conference in SPb today.

http://i.imgur.com/lKvaIMT.jpg

The stream of beer lights up as it pours into the leprechaun's mouth, which is a nice touch. It's next door to a 'traditional English pab' called The Tower (probably run by same people) and like a horse caught between two equally appetising bales of hay, I couldn't decide between them and ended up in neither.

Wondering why yr username is a portmanteau of two cricketers who will presumably never play against each other. It is a lovely mystery

I will spoil the mystery and say it's because the Trinidadian pronunciation of Sarwan and the Irish pronunciation of Samhain (Halloween / November in Irish) are broadly similar. Kid from Warwickshire is a bonus.

That is some wheels-within-wheels business

Any good places in central Athens likely to be showing the hurling next weekend?

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/dec/15/irish-pubs-around-the-world

I found one on the main square in Chivay in Peru at 3635m, which I think makes it the highest - the Nepal one in the Guardian piece is 3440 and Cusco is far lower (3300ish?), but La Paz might push it close?

(we didn't go in as F had a touch of altitude sickness so I stayed in the hotel to look after her)

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The sign says something like "7024km from Dublin".

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Tomsk's finest.

Always wondered what the Russian for "vape bar" was

Dylan - any other Irish places you've seen in Tokyo ?

can't believe i missed matt's reposting of the review earlier itt. it is one of the most "me" blocks of text ever put to paper. horrible passive voice, bizarre and unnecessary confidence of a "user review" - total catnip.

They provide a warm and welcoming environment, a place to socialize, sing, relax, tell stories and to exchange the latest gossip and rumours. The earliest Irish pubs are said to have sold not only ale and basic food, but also hardware – farming implements? Weapons?
Currently Guinness, the famous dark Irish stout originally brewed in Dublin, is the drink of choice when visiting an Irish pub.
O’Hagan’s Irish Pub in Borrowdale Brooke, a branch of the largest franchised Irish pub group in South Africa, opened its doors in Harare a few months ago.
With their own Zimbabwean version of Irish charm and friendliness, O’Hagan’s seems set to pull in the crowds.
When George and I arrived for lunch last Saturday, a pint of Guinness would have been the correct drink to order.
Instead, we bought a bottle of lemon-fresh, still white Amasimi Kelder Semillon, which paired well with George’s calamari and chips and less well with my bangers and mash.
Having met up by chance outside the nearby supermarket with Angela, a friend who lives in neighbouring Hogerty Hll, we persuaded her to accompany us to O’Hagan’s.
This seemed appropriate, since an Irish pub lends itself to having a good time with friends.
Angela and George had starters, costing in the region of $4 each.
Snails, ordered by George, were served in an unusual creamy garlic sauce, with a nice-looking white roll on the side.
Angela’s crumbed mushrooms looked fresh and well-made.
While the starters were being devoured, I did my best to eavesdrop on the conversation of a large group of patrons at a table behind us.
Failing to pick up on any rumours or gossip from surrounding tables, I concentrated on our own conversation, which moved from the state of the nation to our hopes and expectations for HIFA 2010.
This arts and literary festival marks its 10th anniversary this year, and promises to be a cracker of a celebration.
Main course options in the pub included a number of ‘alehouse favourites’ such as Shamus’ Shepherds Pie and O’Hagan’s Shamrock Burger. Considering the love of the Irish for potatoes, I decided on Brendan’s Ban-gers and Mash, served with onion gravy.
Three handsome pork bangers on a somewhat rough looking but tasty bed of mashed potato were served at one end of a large platter.
There was an attempt to camouflage the empty end of the platter with a single lettuce leaf and slice of tomato. A quick look at O’Hagan’s website revealed that in Pretoria North and Potchefstroom, the bangers and mash are served on a round plate and garnished with cur-led slice of orange. Angela’s order, chi-cken strips and French fries served in a basket, looked tasty, as did Ge-orge’s calamari rings and fries.
A large party of young men and women arrived, uniformly clad in denim jeans and brightly coloured tee shirts: all the men wore a single stud diamond earring, Beckham style. Most of the orders were for huge and delicious servings of pork spare ribs.
Flat screen TVs showing cricket and football matches provided background colour and noise, while the level of conversation drowned out whatever type of music was playing.
At Irish pubs I’ve visited in England, Irish folk and love songs such as Danny Boy and Rose of Tralee can always be heard.
Sensitive and poetic-looking individuals, probably refugees from the recession in the Emerald Isle, nurse glasses of ale and gaze into the middle distance, while the sad music washes over them. During the 19th century, under oppressive British rule in Ireland, pubs were declared illegal.
Even so, the spirited Irish still managed to meet to drink ale, complain about their overlords and plot rebellion.
The origins of the entrepreneur Shamus O’Hagan are unclear.
I discovered an architect, a physicist and a youth camp leader in Winnipeg who all go by the name of Shamus O’Hagan.
There was even a Shamus O’Hagan in the Irish Band, Barley Bree, which tried its luck in Canada before returning home.
But regardless of his place in Irish folklore, Shamus O’Hagan’s heart was in the right place when he inspired the highly successful O’Ha-gan’s pub franchise.

like just gonna repost it cos it's so horrendously wonderful. user-generated content trumps fiction once again.

During the 19th century, under oppressive British rule in Ireland, pubs were declared illegal.

this isn't actually true, right? i never heard this, if so.

Three handsome pork bangers on a somewhat rough looking but tasty bed of mashed potato were served at one end of a large platter.

imagine being so afflicted with "i take up my pen now at this moment in which i use too many words to describe in detail the banal details of a minor incident which must be related to you" that you actually explain that bangers and mash "were served at one end of a large platter"

what the fuck does that even mean? like what is going on in the brain when all sense of reality is lost?

tempted to suggest he means one SIDE of the large platter, unlike those less salubrious places where there's food on both sides of the plate -- but i think he means it was one of those long oval plates and all the bangers and mash were placed down one end (tho why anyone would care i cannot say)

i blame a.a.gill

tbf there's an explanation for this detail in the next line:

There was an attempt to camouflage the empty end of the platter with a single lettuce leaf and slice of tomato.

the idea of bangers and mash as a sort of tapa or part of a smorgasbord is fairly disturbing in itself.

During the 19th century, under oppressive British rule in Ireland, pubs were declared illegal.

Oh, the humanity!

not dispositive obviously, but of the first thirty pages that google turns up for the question "did the british ban pubs in ireland?" (no quote marks), 29 are about the march 2004 smoking ban and one is about outrage caused in kerry at a pub that banned "loud americans" lol

adding quote-marks turns up NO pages

(also the index in cecil woodham-smith's the great humger (which is p detailed on depradations in the the decades leading up to same) has no entry for "pubs", "drinking" or "alcohol")

There are loads of pubs across the country that claim to have been in continuous operation for 200+ years so it doesn't sounds very likely.

(it isn't actually called the great humger btw, i think it would have garnered more critical pushback if CWS had gone that route)

prob not a time for revelling in the plausibility of falsehood but there is something kind of amusing and interesting about the ease with which somebody might create something like that.

the hated british denied the poor irish their much-needed pint.

caveat wikipedia obv but this short paragraph has a couple of genuinely interesting sentences imo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_pub#History

(also some details which the careless or hostile could might inflate into the great british pub ban)

(i actually have deadlined work today for tomorrow so naturally i am going to be spending most of it "researching" this eloquently storied social phenomenon)

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_pub#Worldwide: "They have establishments in over 53 countries around the world"

this sub-editor reliably IA at exact-yet-vague claims like these (more than 53 but less than 55?)

http://www.turtlebunbury.com/published/published_features/pub_feats_oldestpubs.html

some rare work on this page^^^, also

(i'll stop now, as this only respects the "far-flung" requirement in terms of time)

dont send clicks to turtle bunbury pls

good advice