Basement Irish Pub

[@jerroldkazynski5480]

Very well done. You've brought the spirit to life! I grew up in a similar house having an unfinished basement. In the early '70s an Army buddy & I visited his bro in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. We stayed local and enjoyed several pubs. Also hit a few in Scotland & England for contrast to our duty station in Germany.

[@jleamy]

I found this link when planning a pub in my basement. I am so inspired by this. Thank you for sharing and you have made an amazing thing sir!!! Cheers.

[@igorjones4757]

My Friend That I Have Not Met Yet - I would be honored to have a drink in your pub some day. I am sure that you get many, many offers for that. But I bring a number of good and occasionally true stories as well as good manners and a thirst for Guinness. A D.E.W. would go down nicely in your establishment. Well done!!

[@residentevilumbrella2001]

It's beautiful of what it became. It went from being a play zone for kids to being a play zone for a man.

[@libramagyk]

I love it !!!! Well done ☘️🥃🇮🇪 I'm from Sligo and This is Brilliant..I love the Bobby Orr Mine will have Bobby Hull

[@CascadeGriz]

Thanks for sharing, some great ideas. We have several of our really good pubs here in Seattle.

[@gregorynuttall]

I was also very surprised at the lack of traditional Irish pubs in Massachusetts. I guess they mostly just live in our imagination. My hope is to build one in the next 5 years. Thanks for the inspiration.

[@BluemaxxRacing]

This is absolutely fantastic! Well done, laddie!😮

[@chev2rcr900]

Very cool.

[@suibhnee]

Dan your video has inspired me with some more ideas for my own basement Pub. I'm from Tewksbury and built my pub after taking a trip to Ireland back in Nov of 2018. Almost ready to make my own video just need to check off a few more things. I noticed the Publican License , really cool with the small touch. I tried Googling an image to reproduce. If you have the time to point me in the right direction I would be grateful.

[@mcneelamusic]

Well done ! Fantastic job ☘

[@funfunstuie]

@hopkintondan Nice bar mate. I have a few comments about Irish Bars (seeing as I am Irish from Dublin but now live in the US) - American beers are very popular in Ireland because they are "new" and "different" when I worked in bars in the 90's US beer would launch with a lot of fanfare and it would be at a reduced price for a decent period of time example Miller relaunched in Ireland in the early 90's and a pint was a pound cheaper (essentially a dollar cheaper) than a pint of harp or something more traditional so they would target busy bars and local places and when money is short and you can 3 pints of cheap crap for the price of 1 or 2 normal you order it. Also Budweiser has been in Ireland for very long time. It was distributed by Guinness so if your pub served Guinness you had to take their other beers. That's why you would see bars with no Guinness and other beers. Guinness ruled the market so could dictate what beers were on tap in pubs. Budweiser in Ireland is different that Budweiser in the US it's a higher alcohol level and has a more malty taste (it's still crap). As it was ubiquitous in Irish pubs during the 80's and 90's American beer would launch and be successful. I haven't lived in Ireland since 2000 so Coors light is a relatively new beer on the market as it wasn't everywhere. Bacon in Ireland is beautiful and bacon in the US is garbage - I'm right you are wrong ;) Half n Half is entirely American. Before Friends was on TV Ireland didn't even have coffee shops. We drink Tea. Now coffee is everywhere but when you order black coffee in Ireland you put milk in it (full fat Irish milk is pretty much cream anyway) What Americans (no offense) see as traditional bars are tourist traps. All the bars in temple bar are not traditional - that's all for tourist show. Most traditional bars will be decorated with GAA stuff from local teams, old jugs and beer advertisements. Those books you bought are great as they show more traditional pubs. The local pub my parents still drink in north Dublin which is 80 years old looks nothing like a traditional Irish Pub you see on TV. As I have grown somewhat homesick over the past year or so I want to create a "pub" at home. Your basement pub is what I would create as it's a great mix of old traditional stuff and it looks homely - that's the main thing about Irish pubs is regardless of the crap on the walls or the beer they serve the best ones are homely. One of the pubs I used to work in was so ingrained into the local community that if a regular didn't show up for a couple of days we would go round their house to check they are ok. As they lived on their own we were their "family". Finally I have a question for you - as an Irishman in the US - where did you get the Irish street signs?

[@igorjones4757]

My late wife and I were in Ireland in '17. While I found a number of "touristy" pubs to my liking, the best place that we set foot in was not far from Mitcheltown. We were on the main highway, heading to Dublin, when I realized that I was damn near out of "petrol!" Panicked, as our American Automobile Association card was likely no good, and I did not want to make my poor, poor bride push the rental to the next fill up spot, we got off of the highway. We found lots of boarded up petrol stations as we headed down the road...but no gasoline for sale. Not far from Mitcheltown, needle below E and sweating bullets, we spotted a pub. The Three Counties IIRC. We pulled into their lot and went in. A soccer match was on the telly and about 9 folks were engaged by the game. Barman said to us, "May I help you?" I replied, "Yes. We are almost out of petrol and where can we find a station nearby?" It was like a movie. I swear! I felt like John Wayne in "The Quiet Man!" as the entire pub, in unison shouted, "YANK!!" We were inundated with offers to buy us drinks! I whispered to my wife, "Honey, if we have a drink here there is a good chance that we will not make it to Dublin today." We had reservations in Dublin but I still regret that we did not pull up a stool and stay. It would have been the best craic that we ever had in our lives. Damned hindsight. The road less traveled would have made all of the difference. :)

[@seandempsey2440]

Awesome job 👍. The bushmills sucks but the Orr picture made up for it. Where in Massachusetts is this? And we need many more Irish ☘️ Pubs. 😊👍☘️🇮🇪

[@hughsnyder8422]

I have a Scottish Tavern basement. What I've observed about the aesthetics of Pubs is loosely that English Pubs are Red, Irish Pubs are Black, and Scottish pubs are White and Gray. When you have the time, money and energy, imagine that wood painted black with some gold accents. With that I'd wonder if I was in Ireland or Massachusetts.

[@hughsnyder8422]

But I LOVE the collection. It is SO hard to just hang out and not get buzzed and turn into a docent, giving a tour. My friends will goad me into doing it for a first time visitor. When I'm drunk I basically do this You Tube video live.

[@DREVY82]

Well done

[@mrmachine5632]

Battle of Hastings was English. Authentic non tourist pubs are everywhere in Ireland you just need to stay away from the tourist traps you all seem to head right for. (Galway's Eire Square/Dublin's Temple Bar) literally every town in Ireland is full of bars you would call traditional and filled with Irish people. That said this is a great build.

[@barryosullivan8742]

Superb mo chara 👍👍👍

[@doniehurley7634]

I was all the road signs in county cork had gone

[@ann-mariemcdonald2124]

Very nice

[@jakejohnson4360]

This is awesome! Can you go more into detail about that Battle of Hastings towel? Also- do you buy every poster? Or do you have a way to print them out and home and frame them?

[@broneobraonain8506]

Music used is 🤌🏼

[@hopkintondan3984]

Go to my new site www.fluteandfiddle.com to find answers and more useful information. Sláinte!

[@Zzus321]

Wee 👍👍

[@TokyoDrftg]

I've looked everywhere for that "haire of the dog" sign - can you help?

[@deniset3164]

Does it have a restroom?

[@broneobraonain8506]

Nó Michael Collins?!

[@TheDanielHayes]

Great job on the pub and I really enjoyed the video. Thanks for taking the time (and a break from the beer) to put it together! It provides a lot of inspiration. By the way, you've probably already seen the Irish Pub documentary here on KZbin. It really drives home how important the pub is in Irish history and life. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nH_KZZmfo5p6h9k

[@davdev]

I remember the first video you did, this is a drastic improvement. Also, Irish bacon is the best bacon and its not Canadian bacon

[@cgbasketball3485]

Looks great but the Magners sign is not Irish, that is English. Bulmers is Irish, its called Magners in England

[@libramagyk]

I was really hoping the text messages would stop covering up the ability to actually see what seems to look like an amazing job..can you please make another video without covering up your pub ..I didn't get to enjoy seeing it ..looked like a background to your story of its evolution..which was interesting! Just wan a see the pub now though