Foynes Irish Coffe weekend

Nobody going? The weather is meant to be fab this coming weekend, and Limerick has an event on, with pretty much everything free to watch bar the dinner/dance on Sunday night.

Plenty of us, myself included, give out about stuff not happening in Limerick and about the bad stuff in Limerick, so it seems only right to try and talk up an event that from personal experience of going to past ones was good fun in the past.


Think about it folks, come the weekend when the weather is sunny what would be the better option, stroll along O'Connell street and then go online to give out about various scumbags, or go to something, have fun, and then come on here to say you had a good day/weekend?


I know I will be choosing the latter option for at least one day of the festival.

Raiser wrote: »

Passed through earlier - Was pleasant enough, in parts, if a little dead - One band and about 10 Travellers shouting at each other and scowling at the Taxpayer - 30 minutes would be loads, 45 if the Travellers had somewhere else to fcuk up.....

If I am thinking about the same bunch, they got moved on. A local garda decided to ask a couple to come with him so he could check their vehicles for tax/insurance/whatever it took to encourage them to leave.


They were not travellers though, they were from the city it seems and from an estate on the same side of the city as you and I.

The_Joker wrote: »

How true is it that it originated from Foynes by a head chef called Joseph Sheridan?

Any sign of the patron saint of Foynes Maureen O'Hara

The Sheridan claim probably holds more water than some of the other claims, as some years after it was meant to be created in Foynes it started to be served in Shannon Airport.


There is an American claim that it was invented in America, but they claim to have invented it a good ten years after it was being served in Foynes, plus there are photographs in the Flying musuem of people in the 1940's drinking was looks to be dead ringers for Irish coffee.

I know my mother's father, my grandfather, who was part of the flying crew on a number of flights in and out of Foynes said that it was served to passengers at Foynes throughout the 1940's.


For my money Foynes has easily as much claim to being the birthplace of Irish Coffee as any of the other claims, and more than most, so anyone who wants to say that it did not start in Limerick can feck off.:D



Plus Ernest Hemingway was pictured drinking it in Foynes in the early or mid 1940's so that's good enough for me plus I am pretty sure that Bogart is in a picture with one as well there.