The Oldest Pub in Ireland?
April/14/2009 Ireland Journal
By the time Judy and I got back to Athlone from Galway, it was getting dark and the weather was threatening.
So we ducked into a mall to pick up a few necessities and discovered a crowd of fans biding their time by enjoying a televised football match.
We asked some shop clerks to recommend a local pub, and they pointed us to Sean’s Pub, which claims to be the oldest pub in Ireland, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Well, it was old and full of Guinness to be sure, but after checking online, I determined that the “oldest pub” claim is in considerable dispute. I found one entry that purports to be written by Sean himself, and his admission about the origins of the claim is pretty funny. Click here to read it. Here Judy and I are in Sean’s, posing with a local policeman (known in Ireland as a “garda”). Judy and I made a early night of it, as we wanted to be in good form for the first day of our first “international” Guerrilla Management Workshop.
So we ducked into a mall to pick up a few necessities and discovered a crowd of fans biding their time by enjoying a televised football match.
We asked some shop clerks to recommend a local pub, and they pointed us to Sean’s Pub, which claims to be the oldest pub in Ireland, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Well, it was old and full of Guinness to be sure, but after checking online, I determined that the “oldest pub” claim is in considerable dispute. I found one entry that purports to be written by Sean himself, and his admission about the origins of the claim is pretty funny. Click here to read it. Here Judy and I are in Sean’s, posing with a local policeman (known in Ireland as a “garda”). Judy and I made a early night of it, as we wanted to be in good form for the first day of our first “international” Guerrilla Management Workshop.