Post pictures of far-flung Irish pubs here

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