Full Movie: The Irish Pub

[Music] and the same doors here and we'll start another day pretty good oh yeah more fishy no sound out no problem with her [ __ ] thanks john thanks thanks there's a snook there on this side and there's a snow on that side and these dogs in the olden times were used for ladies to drinking and as well as matchmaking the fathers of the bride-to-be or the groom to be would come in and uh sort out what the dowry was going to be it could be a little bit of money and there could be like a hen or a sheep or something as well the people are getting married weren't there at all just the fathers and the mothers in there they discussed the the deeds and every in every pope and things like say their old marriage arrangements wrote down the made out name republican and it was signed by board people that there'd be so much money involved in italy yeah and you know there was money involved in every match and my aunt who would be in her 90s now she remembers it actually going on and she said that you would stay around outside and if the match went ahead there'd be a celebration and you might get a biscuit or an apple not a glass of champagne well there was all there was no seating at the counter there was no stones up until the 50s well maybe in the city's alright but not in down in the towns and it wasn't etiquette for a lady to stand at the bar and have a drink it was looked frowned on so they were put see that's what these snugs the lady went in or the lady and his her husband and wife went into the snug and or else into the lounge but never at the bar until the end of the 50s and then they were allowed ladies kind of didn't of course it was terrible discrimination when you think about it but if a man came in with his wife like she went to the snow because she might have her little sherry and he might be at the bar you know that's the way it wasn't those you know i'm going back to the start of the century but um i had this a lot of famous characters drank in there down through the years mccullen snow was i believe i i would have heard stories when i was very young um whether a regular in there and people love to come in and have a conversation about some serious matter and just close the little shutters off and have it and that's what the snugs and the seats are so narrow you sat up straight in it as well there was no crouching there was a president of ireland actually um was asked her by um dick spring he was a politician and john rogers he's senior counsel they got together in there with mary robinson one evening they asked her would you run for president so there's a little plaque in there to commemorate that yeah you like some snuffy i'm not too bad at all and here it's always been an important place for um horse training and i remember as when i was young i was only 15 or 16. it was um a lot of pretty successful horses around here at the time and there's a lot of bits pulled off but look so i remember walking in there one day and there was a man there he was the brother of a very famous trainer and it was the day before one of the big classics i think the derby or the the guineas in england and unsuspecting i walked in to the middle of a group of men expected to get them another drink and he had a load of envelopes and everybody stopped everybody looked i kind of looked at fancy fancy looked at me go away for a few minutes right sorry [Music] unusual we have a pub on one side and we have a grocery on the other side we have petrol pumps just here to the my left if you're not at home further down so we're trying to cater for everything it's an old traditional pub and that's where we're as we have the grocery on one side we wouldn't be making a big profit on the side now where the grocery is but we still are selling as much ham today as it were 20 years ago we were sharp really you could say we're going to come closer i suppose as all rural you know country business started off um your shop general merchant i think the old term our general store um we have your bar with one building we have um a grocery hardware or food market hardware um adjacent to this and master of none and we do undertaking which would be synonymous with the bear with the bear business we're also undertakers and have been for five generations as well so i'm the current undertaker in town this is the parish priest tom breen marshall vladimir brain uh if he already feather dog and we've got a partner system going he gets a lot of money in the church i like to get a lot of change so he brings the change into me i give him cash we cut out the middle man i don't get an awful lot of money in the church but they're very good to me really he does actually enough a lot of money into george his chauffeur's outside waiting for him this probably is one of the most unique pubs in england it's definitely a doesn't it's just not a history to it it has never changed in in any way inside in the premises itself and outside is the same and i try to keep everything the same as it was that's one of my traditions myself keep things that there were there's enough of things changing in the world the whole world is changing the whole of dingle is changing which is ruining it and we'll try to keep it the same as it was myself all i've heard from people that come in here is oh don't change it don't change it don't change it's really like embedded in me and oftentimes i could feel oh god i need to give it a complete overhaul and then you think you start to think well this is what makes it what it is it is an old call but it is 100 years old why would you change it you know there's too many things changing in life look at the stone floor there now and yeah and there are there's never under all the new pumps in that modern horizons are putting in stone floors yeah that's a flag floor and it's like it's here as long as this building is built so it's never changed all be it's rockier and it's on level and you'd have to watch a step walking on it but it's it is here over 240 or forty years old you're already coming in but you have to watch yourself [Laughter] that is so true can you get a point that means yeah [Music] back in the 60s they were they were tearing some of the most beautiful pubs in the city apart i was told this story lean passed this on to me and bill my grandfather at the time people were saying from bill would you not move with the times you're going to be left behind you know we're basically putting carpet on that on the floor and for mike and the counters and taking away with the smog and the partitioning of the old mirrors you know so bill was really upset about this you know what am i going to do here like you know what you know so one day he went for a walk and he went up to ryan's park 8th street another fine beautiful victorian pub and uh the boss man was there himself bongo ryan as he was known bill ordered a drink and he said to bongo he says are you modernizing and bongo says no but he says well i'm not either and the two of them shook hands to this day reigns of arcade street and the palace are stand as they were back in those days you know they haven't changed i have traveled far far from your own native home far away or the mountains far away or deformed [Music] but of all the fine places that i've ever seen sure that none to compare with the cliffs of dooney glory this is as as it was it's built in and the colombian pine floor encounter and the woodworkers are colombian pain and they there's a lot of stuff here that has collected over the years for the for the future generations to see what life is like today and but because with the advent of all the technology now and everything they think everything is will be a stainless steel or plastic and it's just a kite um just to remember you the people went before us just to keep the [Music] continuity the younger generation will never know what real pubs were like and this to which we're lucky enough to have kept they can't get over it and we don't have no television no music just conversation and it has started off now with the surfers are they love because they can come in and trash out what they did wrong and what they didn't do wrong and they love when there's no music or anything like that to annoy their conversation well it's kind of an oasis now unfortunately because the whole area has changed i mean there's all office blocks and tower blocks everywhere and let's say over i mean in the 60s there was a theater royal which is across the road and we had the irish press next door and it was always busy very very busy during the day and before that it was the docklands and we used to get all the dockers in and it was just non-stop drinking in those days you know early early morning we went to an early house but from that so as soon as you open the doors dad would tell you like from half 10 onwards it was busy constantly busy you know so um now it's office crowd it's students it's workers it's a good mix of everything which is the main thing you know there's a good mix and they all come from the point of guinness which we have a reputation for being the best point of guinness in dublin which obviously means the best point again is anywhere so and we have a high reputation it's um consistently very very good and every now and again i do sample it myself just to make sure quality control you know so cheers tastes like more let's just say [Music] it was the sacred and good paint [Music] i'll put it so far and let it settle and then put a head on it good creamy top but you're the same i always kept a good paint i'll use it thanks very much well it was great to sorry but um when this is here doesn't go down yeah i was a bread point here that's okay we're riding a street [Laughter] oh i like honesty no that's okay how would you be honest i'm the crack here [Music] well we're here in john b keane's bar in the stall um which was given to me by my dad about 20 years ago as he had enough of it himself walking behind a bar and trying to write himself my mother bought it in 1955 dad came home from england and spared up his money and got a loan from the bank and they told him she was a hair dresser and the two of them set it up and we've been here since it's a great little bar not the biggest bar in ireland but people think it is because of the name outside the door and the price of drink went up 10 cent the other day and the customers were complaining and whinging so i said i'd give them free drink for the night if one of them could tell me the price of a slice pan of bread not one of them knew the price they guessed the guests they got it all wrong to be honest i didn't know the price either but this fella sean moriarty started all the trouble so i said sean there you are you know the price of a pint of guinness but you don't know the price of the staple of life the very staple of life bread he says i don't believe you know he says but then again i wouldn't eat seven or eight sliced pans every night would i [Music] [Laughter] [Music] so but the worst one used to be not that many years ago that you look like when you had to close between of a sunday you had to close between two and four that's right that was the hardest one because everyone would come up with a nearly double up on their dreams that was always the sweetest drink in any pub was the one after hours yeah or the one you got on a good friday yeah they were just they're the sweetest ones we use the kitchen quite a lot before the sunday opening came in yes we did i have to admit we got all the characters coming from the football and the old boys from way down the little country years ago you know and they wouldn't pass this place without coming in on a sunday evening for a drink and a bit of a thing so and discuss the football they would have come through the back door into the kitchen they always need to come in the back row door and some of the old characters met me about four o'clock in the morning would have been looking for a drink quick and maybe hunt the bike door with a stick now the nail walking stiff steve doyle used to hit the door with a stick and they would throw stuff up at the wendy when the police would have come they would went out to our back kit back door i'd turn the back window there crap through the wendy and into the garden and the way up the fields to get out of the place this road and their battles with them well the best mundo's ever thought about the two were talking for sunday and florida was this wife the husband was coming home he was kept in and he was coming home around five or six o'clock and she said that's the that's the last time you're going to do this on clouds at two attack you're coming home at five attack your dinner will be in the bin next sunday if you're not here at two o'clock you can find the next sunday half-life where's me dinner it's in the bed we'll get her by the scruff of the neck opens the door gives her one good kick up the ass lantern the middle of the street and who's walking down only to pp and he says father and make sure she goes to march every other sunday i don't think anybody [Music] them i said no they it'd just be a big offense though after hours and that was it was a big raid here one year and um they've done three pubs at the time the same night and the place was full here but everyone escaped out the back at the time was a major crime to be caught in the pub because um they've got something to cause five people that nice he used to have hens out the back and there was a vicious rooster but one of the fellas went in and hid in the hen house but there was no night the rooster never made the sound the guards never checked in their nose and the boys reckon the next day that your man had the roost to be the throat that's why there was no noise out of the shed because the roof would normally kick up a racket he wasn't caught now but there was there's five other people caught that need i think the fine at the time was a fiver or something but it was a big thing around the town at the time so nobody passes any remarks that anymore nobody passes any remarks [Music] i suppose the aries pop more so than english pubs are ranting it's just a sense of humor and you know the irish do you have a great sense of humor do you know and personally for me anyway i'm not a television addict or anything do you know and i like to come out and meet people and my neighbors and that and have a chat i don't come for the drink really i'd have a drink but it's for the chat i'd come i showed you for the hell no hair to go but i'm gonna have to get her own much anywhere but i don't have any pardon to me because i come down here and have a chat a few nights a week and have a drink very important for me because i'm not interested in television i've been sitting at home looking at the wall yeah [Music] and uh it's a social a pop of the source social outing so it is where people come to relax and spend time and settle down look at your man and uh it it's it's unique because the problem in ireland is everybody comes to meet in the palm everybody everybody says hello to their friends uh sorry how are you frankie great game class game magic wasn't it um ask me that question again if you're going to a pub abroad and they just didn't really ignore you you go into a pub in ireland and go up in your arrows to find out who you are name the dress and creamy number before you nearly get a drink you know where you're from and who you are and if you you're evasive at all they keep asking questions you might as well just put your credentials up on the counter when you go in save a lot of trouble that's why i knows with them here anyway there was a man here one day and he was fairly inquisitive and he was sitting over the fire side there and this stranger came in i don't know who it was but your man called me over on you and i went office what's up who's that i just turned around the system and as i was if you tell this fella who yaris is he wants to know no i don't know i don't this is what the hell else did you call me out for you see the face going red in your mouth never ask me again [Music] i'd say myself that we say carmel now we say and her husband not mercianum jim you know they regarded the customers as an extended family you know and the staff were yeah they were you know the staff know they'd do anything for the staff the staff would do anything for them yeah they were kind of like family your customer is your friend your customer is your family basically and you get to know every one of them and you know they know you so well and it's whatever piece is or he doesn't say or he's quoted in a lot of things when he was as well if he kept his mouth closed there's people coming to me for a drink and i get talking to them and they'll stay for the night to just to be dark maybe i have that's the bitter charm i have i can talk to people and relax people and that's how they want and maybe sing a song come by the hills to the land where fancy is free and stand where the peaks reach the skies and the locks meet the sea where the rivers are unclear and the bracken is gold in the sun and those cares of tomorrow must wait till this day is done come by the hills to the land where life is a song and stand where the birds fill their with their joys all day long where the trees sway in time and even the wind sings in tune and those cares of tomorrow must wait till this day is done come by the hills to the land where legends remain where stories of old have been told and may yet come again where the past has been lost and the future's about to be won and those cares of tomorrow must wait till this day is done well i suppose the history of this object it's back to 1840 originally building was built as a grain store uh i'd be the fourth generation and hopefully the kids will be the fifth if we could stick it out ah my great-grandfather turned it into a pub shop grocery feed store machinery you know everything went down here at the time whatever but i suppose at 12 through bad times good times or whatever and um i came back from dublin in 92 and started chipping the plaster away from the building as things were quiet or whatever so i restored us by hands over a period of x amount of years and probably not finished yet if the truth is tall but uh it's been good to me in ways we've had good years we have a bad years tough years whatever the pub trade is tough at the moment but look it's it's it's it's a it's a vocation i made in here in 1963 and my husband owned it so i know i'm running it now since he died in 75 passed away in 75 so now i'm continuing carrying on and the next generation i hope they do the same i'd like to see it continue the help of godzilla but no one knows why don't we can't tell the future sure we can't if you're just not ours today [Laughter] yes sir whatever's to be you'll be i think that's a very nice song what i find is very important i i like going into family-run businesses i find that there's a connection of a connection of of respect and of a hard work ethic and you need a hard work ethic to survive within the pub trade or whatever and uh rory will you get all the way please goodbye uh it just brings a little togetherness within and i feed people feed off that if they you know to feel more secure within themselves or if they're in that sort of workplace boys and girls now just move all the way move all the way i came back early in the early 90s and i have to say the trade here was very very very poor for various reasons it was just a combination of parents being old and not interested in the pub so it picked up for me and i've gone full circle where it's gone probably back quite again-ish due to the economy and due to me losing maybe a lack of little just a little bit of sparkle or a little bit of bite and i'm getting re-energized again and hopefully if i can get my energy back into it that's hopefully it'll pick up again [Music] the pub's name is oh shockness is pob and it's affectionately known as the captains and the captain he was my father and he inherited the pub in 1952 after his brother died and he was an eccentric man my father really because he closed his pub at six o'clock in the evening he never opened after after six o'clock and they all knew that and they all left quietly at six o'clock so i'm keeping the tradition going and i feel i'm only care technical for him so um i'll care take it anywhere and i said to him when you die and i said dad i said the name's over the door now says i and it'll be there when i'm going a lot of the stuff here has been left in by locals and by by people people who were interested in the pub and had no more use for them that's actually the confessional from the church that's the original piece that they are the confessional from the church of all the pieces and and trinkets that were given into the pub and this actually wasn't given however there's an amazing story behind this piece this is from the penal the p the penal laws in ireland and it's a it's it's it's uh an altar when there was religious persecution in ireland and it was forbidden that that they say mass in churches and the priests went um to the houses and they said and and and and to private places in woods and whatever to say a mess for the locals and this was what they call a traveling altar and it's everything is original in it that it hinges down like that and the the crucifix is here and the pattern for the for when you received the holy communion and there was a little a little alter class an amazing little altar class all original these are all inside me back from the 1800s and it it it's all embroidered it is beautiful and there's the original spoon for the holy isles [Music] do well these i don't know they must have been there for years probably my grandparents got them and they were up there the one that's most popular is this one here with the mitchell's whiskey because it has two lovely views one of hosts and the other one of ireland's eye and there's one mistake there we think it is anyway ireland's eye as people know what islands lie but it's iron lads lad poster vs that's written on it so i'd say there's something about that hotel head i think it's roaches a store in dublin he one of them had called one time and he said his home wasn't his home he said was on that so he would love to buy the mirror but the mirror's there that long it's not for sale and as a matter of fact the people that may reigns the arthur faraway productions there with the crow they're doing it they they they're trying to bite the floor of the pub of my father and they wanted the religiously to pretend the pub in ryan's pub in in the famous kirray village which is rhinestone arthur and my father says the floor is there before him and he'll be there after him it won't be moved [Music] i suppose there's a lot of stuff we have for all the jersey up there that a man up the road was not unconscious in 1963 i think it was he was nine days unconscious and literally couldn't get the jersey off him for nine days because of his head swelling whatever and the blood stain is still on the jersey we have different bits and pieces we have a camogie all ireland winning team we have a dog here wearing glasses and smoking a pipe we have an all-ireland minor one in jersey with an old can of fanta we have a box of calgary cheese i have my own grandmother's day books where she used to bookkeep they're all right you have to dust them that's when they've just become a pain and then people bring in various bits and there's a mold trap there that came from out everything was america that came from all the way in those tongues over there in the corner they came from canada nice tongues just people who bring in bits and pieces just add to the stuff then when you when you go to paint the place or do it up at all you take everything down and then you don't know where halfway goes back so there's boxes of stuff lying about the place as well you'll be wondering how it all fit up in the first place [Music] we always had stuff hanging out the ceiling there as well and when people came in strangers especially tourists they'd always their head up in the air looking at the stuff on the ceiling and trying to identify it sometimes it might be a nod wellington hanging there and to be looking for the other wellington man they always had a bit of a laugh about that stuff up there another bit of history the bear on the front door i'll show you this and bring up this clothes the bear in the front door there's a bin in this it was burst the bear was bursting in in the of the black intense they drove the vehicle through the door and they pushed they bent the bear in the door and the burn the door is still there we leave with it yeah the picture in the background here's a picture of syev it was uh john b's first play it was written in 1958 and it was a story about a young girl who was being married after a far older man very much against her wishes and she ran away in the middle of the night and she was drowned and there's a you know they're just they're lamenting her there's a song called the scythe song for they murdered lovely self or she would not be a bride and they laid her dead to bury in the clay unfortunately i can't sing because god takes something away from everyone otherwise that would be perfect [Music] [Laughter] [Music] bye [Music] oh jimmy is one of one of the top characters in the town closet opera singer a wish quiet man i spent a lot of time at sea and uh retired comes from an all that long family that pours in that pause suits him to a tee drinks a glass of lager that was in the good old days when he could smoke we sort of have an arrangement that he imbibed at little or no costs which is all which i don't like during my life i mean we we never mind about it as it was practically our maybe it was our sort of we started maybe but i just informed him recently you know after 19 to 20 years in the place that if he's making a will to remember me and he was wondering why i just hit a small matter of about 12 to 13 000 euros or whatever you know after my doing the quick maths like but uh i don't think he got the point anyway so the greatest hope of me getting it over it was not that i wanted or anything like that [Music] here louder blackberry [Music] [Applause] [Music] with you [Music] it wouldn't happen and if somebody was sitting on my seat his seat i'd move them if they came in politely of course but i just but i think anybody local would automatically get up automatically when dana would come in and they would know that it is a seat even people that wouldn't drink here regularly but might come in now and again wouldn't know that that stan was seat and i wouldn't yeah if someone came in and sat down you know i just once or twice i'd say if they weren't from here i'd just say would you mind that's i am yeah i know [Music] i remember there was a guy there was a guy that uh he was coming here and he was loved to bring a pint away in a bottle so my father would get the whiskey bottle and i need village which guinness for him but and he'd said you'll bring back that battle now tomorrow but the bottles weren't coming back you see but this day anyways he came in and my father put down his foot he said you're getting no guinness because you're not bringing back the battles to me oh he says i had the battle outside and he went out and in the air gate and to the crates behind and he took her back out of that now here's your battle he was getting his own battle all the time so he was but you know you are there were some great characters you know but sadly there they have all passed away [Music] so the strangers never normally get the brunt of me me bad manners let's say there was an american lady come in and she went down to the ladies toilet and she came back up and complained but there was no lock on the toilet door and she went to argue with me and i said well this is my grandfather started business in 1911. he says he passed away in the 40s his father took over he's retired now passed on and um i'm here since he says and no one ever stole his [ __ ] over yet so that was the last complaint i heard from that lady in fact it was the last word i heard from that lady never seen her since i don't know what she took offense or not but she went on about our business not that i've probably seen it that much i don't think she'd have been commuting from new york it was a story about a man that bought a bag of coal in our yard where we sell the cold and the bag of flour the same day and it is very funny story he was going home with his hearts and care and his family in the care and it poured rain and by the time he got home the flower and the coal mixed and the people were so poor they could not afford to throw that flow road it was ruined the flood was black the flower so they thought of a plan they made a cake with a black flower and instead of eating themselves they tried it out on the old grandfather and they gave him enough cake and when they didn't kill them they itched themselves there is nowhere quite so lonely as a silent darkened stage when the footlights have all dimmed and died and the props are put away but our town felt just as lonely as me turned into june when god finally rang the curtain down and called our playwright home the two kiana killed a rainbow nor turn back the rising sun nor undo the works of gifted men even though their day is done for they always my dad got all his material for such plays and movies as the fields here in the bar around the time he died uh 10 years ago this year an old boy just was wandering around the day he died outside the front door and this journalist stopped him and said i said you might be asking what it is that made john b so special so the old boy thought for a second and he said well he says john b was the smartest man of them all he took down what we said and then he charged us to read it so he got all his material here on the pub his storytelling a lot of the characters from his plays just walked in the door off the street and found themselves on the stage a few years later maybe a little bit disguised and a bit changed by his fertile imagination but nevertheless it all came from sitting up at the counter or behind the bars i am now talking away [Music] yeah well brandon being like while his father and mother drank here they were lovely people uh but brendan and drink was a right bowsie uh you clear a pub you know but uh i remember my i'd be coming in from school my father thrown him out many times and he'd be roaring at me father yeah temporary bollocks you know yeah there's a couple of different stories there's supposed to be ulysses and dubliners and a couple of other short stories that were based in here mainly in the small room behind us um there's a lot of history like the thing about past crossing the dublin without passing the pub which is you know a lot of people have tried i'd say but not succeeded you know but um yeah we have a good strong association with james joyce [Music] know actually my heat wasn't too long last night my heat wasn't warm last night no it kept me focused i needed to get the photograph taken look so i'm just saying you're voting here look the cameras are here i was ignored completely this time i'm there at times only we have a the history of um are you going for a jar now that expression is used nearly throughout the world certainly in ireland and that originated from here because in the first world war we were right beside the cemetery and the graveyard a lot of the employees salted the earth people frequented here and in the first world war the shortage it lasts but jam was sold in jam jars so the men from next door to good blade jiggers they were the ones that got their points in the jar so it became the expression from those gentlemen we're going for a jar i'd be the sixth generation we're here since 1833 as the licensed premises how well we were always branded that we've have with ghosts and things like that and one time here there was the group with our equipment for these sensors and did two mediums and one of them said and the other fella said the same the man standing beside me behind the counter so i went to warn i said will you go down there and sketch what you saw and i said to you will you go down there and sketch yourself and they gave me them identical and i went upstairs and brought down and who was it my my stepdad my dad identical and he was i had asked my brother now this is a true story believe it or not folklore college life was the fight and he was the man that i bought the place from he was the man that took me out of the orphanage he was the man that took out my mother and five children he was god's gift to this house and he was my my my i hardly remember my own dad because only eight years and ten months when he died but that man was ideal idea well my dad he trained as a doctor in ucc and he qualified just before the war and he couldn't get a job in ireland so my dad went over to england to see if he could get a job but war was just coming so he joined up the air force he had quite a career there he was in dunkirk with the battle on the beaches and everything and after that he got sent off to the far east and when he was in the far east in sumatra the japanese invaded and he was captured and became a prisoner of war so he was three and a half years in captivity and he ended up in the japanese mainland in nagasaki and he was actually in nagasaki when the atomic bomb was dropped but luckily he survived and came back and lived to tell the tale and we actually have a samurai sword that he brought back with him an officer gave it to him the respect they'd built up between each other so it's amazing to have my dad was 14 stone when he went away in seven when he came home but my aunt said she remembers him coming up the gang planking down near his kit bike over his arm and this in the other hand hmm [Music] people play music here every thursday for the last 46 years it's basically you walk in at nine o'clock on a thursday night it was a stream of musicians into the door and into here and they play music for four hours and then they're gone again it's it's a really unique um thing that we have in here the room is tiny but we we regularly have 20 21 musicians and playing all sorts of instruments in here every every single thursday so it's the longest running music session in ireland it's 46 years and it's only ever stopped twice for two funerals of two people that played here so that's pretty unique so what we do then is when we have uh somebody who's died their picture goes on the wall of where they've sat when they've played the music all those years and they're kind of their memory goes on then on the wall so we like to do that to remember [Music] everybody [Music] so as far as we know we have the written history of the smith's been here since 1815. that was the year in the battle of waterloo that started off in newtown i could see 350 easily you know but it would be fairly tightened but anyone came and went after 10 and 9 30 didn't have to stand we had six girls behind the counter one time i didn't walk behind the counter at all they said we had a small lounge here first denise to play the piano and then when there's still on his wrap and want to drink i'd have to get up and go and get him to drink and i come back to play again and someone dropped again that have to go up again and a very very wise and a very old man came over to me one night and he said you'll have to change your position here and your attitude you have to get somebody to serve the drink and you stay playing the piano so so you know that home sweet home bananas i think i don't know how to play now [Music] so we've had some great times here over the years and some great characters come through and great musicians you know and and already living in town was or just outside of town was a great boost to us i mean that's it was huge really like everyone a lot of people would say like like clowning guilty was always a dreary place but directly when noel came to he brought the 60s with him like you know he kind of kicked it off and just brought that color color to the area and i know as you can see it as you drive through it it's so vibrant and colourful and um you know and it really was certainly the catalyst one of the catalysts for us and uh you know when it's just it's like anything we were like we were saying before tradition is important no more than ever and and the musical tradition here is very important it's important to the town there's a huge musical legacy here and all the young people out there coming up and some of the the music and the musicianship and the bands is just it's phenomenal and um you know like west cork is it's it's it's become the the nashville of of of ireland almost to an extent like you know i mean christy moore like it was in the most famous quarters he said there's uh there's the sydney opera house chris carnegie hall there's the royal albert hall and then there's the virus so that's um it's as good a testimonial as i think as you'll get off of anyone this uh funny-looking man here is uh shauna herrera news that the main singer in the national fork theater of ireland he just wandered in for uh for a drink so we've managed to persuade him to sing a song what did you sing for sean i think she moved to the fair she moved to the fair written by thomas moore yeah it was my van man when we were claiming him anyway just up the road i forgot my young love said to me my mother won't mind and my father once light you for your lack of kind then she stepped away from me and this she did say it will not be long love till all wedding a day she stepped away from me and she went through the fair i'm fondly i watched her move here and move there and then she went homeward with one star [Applause] [Music] our grandparents opened the pub on some patrick's day 1900 and it's we're the third generation there's there was my grandparents my mother my father came in here and then there was four of us and three girls and a boy and there's two of us always stayed and we've ran the pub from we were at school we all had our jobs when we came home from school and then when mommy died in 62 and daddy died in 82 and we took over the two of us took over completely in 82 and ran it day in day out seven days a week we might have a what would you say an odd you know ward a battle or something like that but no fights we don't do a battle not a battle but a difference of opinion yeah we're together as well as are we 25 years together at least yeah yeah i suppose so we are yeah well i haven't killed him yet anyway so obviously it's very advantageous for the business um that's where it's costing that but it can be a little bit hard at times yeah it's hard and we try not to really we try not to talk about it up at the house we're particularly in front of the kids because we're kind of all day at it and like we do work like pat works yeah it's hard he works pat works realistically seven days a week you know we try and have a sunday off kind of ever so often that we can do something with the family you know because it is difficult sometimes i feel like i could be a single mother i think there's only i think they say there's three generations in every family business there apparently so um so come here while you can i suppose if anyone is watching it it might not be here for much longer but no i suppose i've been like i've been working here all my life since i was young for the i mean on and off and then i went to school and went to college and lived abroad for a few years and i came back and i just kind of i suppose i just kind of fell back into it so and uh i had to go away to realize how much i missed and how much i actually enjoyed it i suppose uh because you know i always i never really like like any like anything sure you last you want to be doing this and working with your family when you're a young fellow anything like that but uh i suppose with um over the years and it wouldn't be with a bit more maturity i suppose i've kind of want to accept it and enjoy it much more and get on better with the boss i suppose that's the problem because at the end of the day when he's if he's the boston if your boss is being uh an [ __ ] you can choose an ass but when you're passed your father it's very it's very conflicting uh thought process because of course i love my father he's not an [ __ ] that's my dad he was here all his life he probably never i don't think he was ever out of the country in his life he was never out of the country never would you know how they ordered the country in his life i have been out of the country five times i've been dublin eight times my dad is really the same as myself we never changed they asked me to see my brother [Music] we thought that he died there about five years ago he died between you know his father you're not nervous he wasn't about taking out the school at 13 years of age to work behind the counter my grandfather wasn't well so he that's all he knew was the bear work from his school days i need never hardly ever missed a day behind the counter holidays and i wouldn't be attending with him we might go away for a couple of days in the latter years when we grew up a bit because um no he wouldn't be one now for going abroad on holidays he ventured over england twice i think in his life that was about it as far as he went and shame lots of people nowadays who don't get a copy we had a foreign we had a painting done of the old bear with my father standing behind the bear and uh dr mercedes he's gone since he's gone five or six years now seven years i think and um i tell you you didn't hang around when he was around like you know you you got on with what you had to do but um you know he believed in in being straight honest with people and that's very important and uh if he could be of help to them he definitely would be of of help to them and that he tried to pass that on to me and i hope i took some of it from him uh you know that that you'd be friendly when people come in and you look after them and that they'd go away with a good feeling about the place well could john my husband like to drop a drink i'm very very truthful about it i'm not ashamed to sell it well which many thousands more did but he was a good fella in every way and very kind and very popular and very well known with everybody and uh but i don't i don't think it was that way he kept him i think he more or less was a heart attack that killed him he got a massive heart attack and died lord rest him yes but he liked to drop a drink and his family before him liked to drop where do you go there [Laughter] [Music] no he yes chiton would have liked to drop a drink so he would have too but i wouldn't like to see and if there are some taking it too much to me i'm not on for too much drink now because it can end up problems you know what i mean younger people can go into off license and buy a bottle up you know at a reasonable price maybe a bottle of coke or something to go with it and you can't them but then again i think maybe they get too much drink that way because if they're getting it behind the bar they're getting it measured whereas all the way they're strengthened in bottles and glasses it's very very very sad to see these traditional irish pubs closing down it's the saddest thing in the world and a lot of them are closed and a lot of them will be closing if it continues the way it's going because i i just think it would be terrible because it takes away all the character the irish pubs have a bit of character to them do you know what i mean at least to make everybody happy and welcome and plus you look after people too at home seriously for monday morning especially anywhere in dublin even here you come in it's like a confession box yeah everyone's gonna i had to get out of the house she was doing me heading all these stories are here don't you later yeah yeah you could have a person 82 years in there you could have a person 52 years in there and you can have a person at 22 years in there and like they can all meet they get used to talking to each other and interacting with each other and they appreciate each other and they respect each other and respect us what it's all about in a public place the irish pub is a place where you can talk without any interruption except by everyone i know that's a contradiction but if you're at home you're interrupted by one person your wife your husband or your son or your daughter or your partner or whatever being interrupted by one person you have to shut up but when you're absorbed by 50 people and everyone talks together everyone gets to say their peace so it's like it's like a safety valve for the population of ireland we probably have less psychologists and psychiatrists in any other country in the world but there's probably no country in the world who needs them more yet we we divulge all our troubles and our and our worries and our borders here in the pub have a couple of beers relax and talk them through that's what people do and i think that's why we're generally a happy nation in spite of all our little economic downturns and the occasional recession clubs people come in and they've an awful lot of regrets and stuff i don't think you should regret anything and you know everybody comes in and if i was your age i would do this and i should have done that and you know here we live for for now and we don't worry about what's what's coming in the future and we don't worry if we if if we're going to be in a recession for the next 10 years we just play a bit music have a few pints and move on you know so if my one piece of advice would be just to just live it and and and not worry about what what's not happened yet uh enjoy life i suppose you know don't have to do don't let your life be spoiled by the big picture of things that you can't have enjoy what you have and you can't do anymore if you can make more out of it fair enough but enjoy it we'll have it leave it as best you can and as long as you can when you go out in the morning if you can do a good somebody good turn do it but don't do them a bad one you'll get through it eventually you get through it eventually i myself advice i would give to anybody is peculiar i i just left i i was very active in sport all my life still am training a football team here i had heart problems and whatever and thank god i got over them and i'd say the most thing that most of us want to be do for nearly all our life is smile and respect each other i know always be happy no matter what your situation is no advice to advice one of the things about life that i always think is this one seriously important thing about life and that's to be have a contented mind and be well have good health i'm 84. would you think of a day for advice to give them [Laughter] oh you wouldn't have to give anyone advice nowadays [Laughter] [Music] i don't know in life don't rush it don't rush it take your time it was an it was a famous advice a normal man from the blasters told me take it easy and that was his life and i said that's that that's the light happen don't rush life [Music] it was one people had a great idea and about got the poster to all the pubs on it and they were coming home for three weeks and their holiday was they're going to be drinking everyone the pubs think there's about 40 pubs on us around the whole country just hired a bus turned left at dublin airport around the whole country to hold i'd love to go on myself [Music] um [Music] so [Music] you

Channel: Janson Media

Views: 692,391

Rating: 4.9107752 out of 5

Keywords: irish pub, the irish pub documentary, the irish pub crawl, the irish pub movie, the irish pub film, Ireland, taverns, publicans, bars, beer, pint, restaurant, history, netflix documentary, irish movies, irish documentaries, full movies, ireland boys music, irish pub singing, irish pub music traditional, irish pub story, irish pub ambience, irish pub dancing, dublin, guinness, irish music, irish bars, celtic, pubs in ireland, irish people, history documentary, the irish pub

Id: fNg4fin5GQw

Length: 74min 14sec (4454 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 10 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/jayrocksd]

“You’ll be alright coming in, but you need to watch your step going out.” ~Dano

[u/fishtankguy]

All closed since March more or less. Lots and lots never to open again.

[u/BlueBloodLive]

Worst thing about being Irish is going to a new country and seeing "Irish pub" and walking in and it's the furthest thing from an Irish pub.

Just bright green paint, shamrocks on the walls and bad food that is passed off as "Irish".

[u/micmck]

I think I died at “no one ever stole a shit”.

[u/shadowpawn]

One night, a police officer was stalking out a particularly rowdy bar for possible violations of the driving under the influence laws. At closing time, he saw a fellow stumble out of the Irish pub, trip on the curb, and try his keys on five different cars before he found his. Then, sat in the front seat fumbling around with his keys for several minutes. Everyone left the bar and drove off. Finally, he started his engine and began to pull away. The police officer was waiting for him. He stopped the driver, read him his rights and administered the Breathalyzer test. The results showed a reading of 0.0. The puzzled officer demanded to know how that could be. The driver replied, "Tonight, I'm the Designated Decoy."

[u/FrankDrakman]

I went to an AA meeting in Limerick, Ireland, a few years ago. I've been to AA meetings in Canada, the US, France, and Australia. I never saw such hard or grim faces as I saw in Limerick. Those Irish pubs produce a lot more than happy smiles and good times.

[u/wrstlr3232]

I loved this movie! I kind of forgot about it. It’s like listening to a bunch of old people talking about great stories, just makes you happy.

[u/i_bet_youre_not_fat]

The guy at 28:00 with the kids crawling all over the frame...when he says he previously "lost a little bit of sparkle, a little bit of bite"... I wonder...is he talking about depression? Or maybe something more external happened to him

[u/francescoli]

Swinford had 52 pubs for approx of 1100 population back in the 60s.