Post pictures of far-flung Irish pubs here

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

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/cb/14/3f/outside.jpg

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

http://foleys.be/images/photos/bar/front.jpg

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.

http://img1.eu.nelso.com/2009-11-12_13-05-55/DSC_0075_2009-11-12_14-05-56_640x425.JPG

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.

http://www.wikicity.kz/fotos/Company_822_M7KR4AUOZXrCqwMhWFdKcpDr.jpeg

Almaty, Kazakhstan

Ones I have been in:

http://thebestpour.com/images/luckylep.gif

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.

Another one in Barcelona:

http://img1.eu.nelso.com/2010-04-24_10-59-20/DSC_0125_2010-04-24_11-58-42_640x425.JPG

Singapore:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LRtQkHTVu8I/UCSetCvCb7I/AAAAAAAAZZg/Fu_Sh03AAl4/s400/DSCF8033.JPG

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/TRAVEL/04/26/san.francisco.travel.tips/t1larg.lower.haight.cnn.jpg

Right down the street from me in San Francisco

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/283889_223474901029210_5559989_n.jpg

O'Bama's Irish Pub

Barry O'Bama

More from The Irish Pub in Tashkent:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/281211_224526704257363_6855726_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/547394_529466403763390_1837974334_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/527052_363458120364220_102825260_n.jpg

Ushuaia, Argentina--at the southern tip of South America.

http://dontstopliving.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/DSCF7199.jpg

Does any other nation have such a strong set of national signifiers?

in fact best leave that, let's stick to pictures of pubs

Seems to be a dearth of Irish pubs on Antarctica, someone's missing a trick there

Ma Nolan's Irish Pub, Cannes

http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles13/3270151/projects/10261903/f3752b5d584085feb5401c7c5b530030.jpg

Irish Pub Gnome, Kyoto.

http://www.deepkyoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/026.jpg

[citation needed]

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS6RaMCE2tIXUTHCsRQIXuc1a6mPUSZVF3XxwWd6K2tK51wfp3e

http://assets.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/no-slug/e6a05a2813ec7aeae95b7ddecfba6736.jpg

Allegedly Gili Trawangan (Indonesia) is the smallest island in the world with an Irish pub

No, apparently O'Kelly's really *is* an Irish pub at Guantanamo Bay. http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil/storyarchive/2009/November/091203-bartender.html

xp to me

http://www.kosovoguide.com/repository/images/168/Paddy%20OBriens%20Irish%20Pub_5530_thmb4.jpg

kosovo's only irish pub

This would have made a good King of Research round, btw.

Vladivostok:

http://trinityirishpub.ru/images/trinity/slide/t.jpg

"The highest Irish owned pub on the planet" - Paddy's Irish Pub, Lima, Peru: http://www.paddysirishbarcusco.com/

http://www.paddysirishbarcusco.com/images/photo3302.jpg

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/d7/3a/c4/flannery-s-irish-geo.jpg

I didn't actually go to this Irish pub in Santiago, I went to the other one (Fiddlers, of which there seem to be no pictures).

Wait, I think Velko posted that one... It came up in a search for Lima, but Cuzco is right. xp again

i like the place with "irish people night". the night they let the irish people out of their cages to cavort with the clientele.

Looking for Irish pubs in Nome, Alaska, I found New York Kitchen:

http://chuckheathjr.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Nome-Alaska-Town-July-1-1900.jpg

http://southamericansabbatical.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/south-america-sabbatical-2011-077.jpg

http://blog.oyster.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/cabarete-v9460-1024.jpg

^ José O'Shay's - Cabarete, Dominican Republic

nice they've put up a banner with that charming old Irish greeting "Beach Access"

I've been to the one in Cusco! They serve good nachos. Guinness not so good.

Loving this thread, thanks to all!

Third time it's been posted in the thread. It must be the best. xp

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?

http://www.undp.org/content/dam/nepal/img/env_energy/UNDP_NP_SS_Micro%20hydro%20illuminates%20Lukla%20gateway%20to%20the%20Everest%20region.jpg

Luklu, Everest region, Nepal

Montserrat to thread.

Patrick's Day a public holiday in Montserrat.

btw i did not mean to address ilxors posting in this thread, sorry!

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