Old nightclubs and pubs in Limerick

TamK84

Hi everyone,

I hope someone on here can help me. I'm trying to get old photos, flyers etc of 2 old nightclub/pub in Limerick. My hubby used to go to Cheers nightclub and The Parkway Pub, if I have the dates right he started going to The Parkway late 80's - early 90's and then Cheers later in life

Does anyone know where I could get photos or some sort of memorabilia for these clubs?

Oh and we are in Australia so visiting a library etc isn't an option for me

Thank you

neverwasser

Go the the limerick post website and they have a few archived papers from the late 80's and early 90's, you might be able to get a printout of one of the clubs from it.

Poxyshamrock

Bullets posted this back in June 2009!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=60933972&postcount=1

Lady Chatterton

Bullets post brings some great memories flooding back, I remember most of the nite clubs in his/her post from my college days :pac::pac::pac:

Poxyshamrock

MrsD007 wrote: »

Bullets post brings some great memories flooding back, I remember most of the nite clubs in his/her post from my college days :pac::pac::pac:

Do you remember where Saints Niteclub is? It says off Cruises Street?

Only one I've never heard of!

Cookiemunster

Poxyshamrock wrote: »

Do you remember where Saints Niteclub is? It says off Cruises Street?

Only one I've never heard of!

Saints & Scholars became the Market which became Angel Lane.
Saints was the first club I ever went to and I had my first ever pint in the bars upstairs.

neverwasser

Cookiemunster wrote: »

Saints & Scholars became the Market which became Angel Lane.
Saints was the first club I ever went to and I had my first ever pint in the bars upstairs.

I was probably sitting next to you drinking a miwadi

Beaver1

those passes are excellent, I used to copy them for myself and my mates, we never paid in anywhere were there was a pass to be copied, the 80's were great days

Comhrá

Beaver1 wrote: »

those passes are excellent, I used to copy them for myself and my mates, we never paid in anywhere were there was a pass to be copied, the 80's were great days

And I thought I was the only one around here old enough to remember the 80's

Clareman

tippman1 wrote: »

And I thought I was the only one around here old enough to remember the 80's

I remember the 80, well some of it, I was born in 78 and I'm ancient by boards standards

bucks73

Another one here who has been to all those in the past.

The pub in the Parkway was Robbies and the nightclub upstairs was The New Yorker. Those places were wedged at weekends at their peak. I started going to them in 1990 around the time of the leaving cert and Italia 90. Good times!

Comhrá

Clareman wrote: »

I remember the 80, well some of it, I was born in 78 and I'm ancient by boards standards

In that case I think I'll just slip away quietly out of here into the mist without saying any more.......

pleuraXeraphim

TamK84 wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I hope someone on here can help me. I'm trying to get old photos, flyers etc of 2 old nightclub/pub in Limerick. My hubby used to go to Cheers nightclub and The Parkway Pub, if I have the dates right he started going to The Parkway late 80's - early 90's and then Cheers later in life

Does anyone know where I could get photos or some sort of memorabilia for these clubs?

Oh and we are in Australia so visiting a library etc isn't an option for me

Thank you

I have one Flyer but it was for the Park Nightclub if that is of any help.
Let me know by PM if you want it and I can post it.

moby2101

Old enough to have been to most of these establishments also !:) I went to college in Limerick in 89(..do the maths..old!!!)
Is it just me or was there not a much more vibrant nightclub and music scene back then. I remember seeing Something Happens and The 4 of Us loads of times in the two mile inn...Long walk back into town, The Wedding Present in the Parkway! That was an amazing gig.
Anyone remember the Pub where Baileys is now ( ..,NO 15, Boxwells) ...they had a "Music Club" that you had to join, it was a way around licensing hours in the early 90's...U could imbibe away in there on a Thursday/Friday night till the weeeeeee hours!

bazz26

Think it was called Mac's back then.

bullets

Was never at the one in the Parkway.

There was still a set of slow songs towards the end of the night when
I went clubbing regularly where a fella could ask a girl to dance and get an awl shift at the end of the night if ya had not pulled before then.

~B

mgbgt1978

moby2101 wrote: »

Anyone remember the Pub where Baileys is now ( ..,NO 15, Boxwells) ...they had a "Music Club" that you had to join, it was a way around licensing hours in the early 90's...U could imbibe away in there on a Thursday/Friday night till the weeeeeee hours!

It started off as No.15 when power's small profit stores decided to make bigger profits by going into the Pub game.
then became boxwell's when the guy who has Mac's off-licence (on the Ennis rd) bought it.

moby2101

You're right Macs or Boxwells, anyone rememer the name of the "music club" ? I was a proud card carrying member for a few years, it entitled you to head in there after all the pubs had shut for a few more bevvies!

mgbgt1978

Sorry, I remember the "music club" ruse all right, but I can't remember if they had a seperate name for it, or if it was just Boxwell's Music club.

Also, speaking of how old some of you people are, does anyone remember when the pubs brought in the 1/2 litre Glasses (instead of Pints).
This was when a budget increase brought the price of a pint to just over £1, so they sold 1/2 litres at £1 for a few months....until the next drinks industry price increase.

BTW I'm old enough to remember when Ted's (The Brazen Head) was actually owned by a guy named Ted, he now has Matt the Thresher's in Birdhill.

Clareman

Wasn't the whole half litre thing as a result of a disagreement with the Weights and Measures who were trying to stardardize stuff?

mgbgt1978

Ah clareman, you were but a mere lad at the time.:)
It was definitely a "marketing" thing to keep the price of a pint (OK, a 1/2lt)under a £1.
That's why it only lasted until the next price increase.

Does anyone remember The Pink Elephant (in the Savoy), where a certain shaved-head bouncer (whose name rhymes with Larry murphy....but begins with a G) allegedly used to throw troublemakers out through the window rather than march them all the way over to the door.

Clareman

I've worked in a few bars and 1 of the bars had half litre glasses that were used for rock shandies and minerals, I asked where they were gotten and I was told it was cause of weights and meassures years ago. Anyone ever been subjected to a weights and measures audit will know they can be a pain in the @rse.

celticcrash

Buddys pub in foxbow lane.

If you remember it you weren't there.:)

Roosta

I rem Pink Elephant + bouncer , never thrown out a window though ! 1/2 lt pints , same era as the infamous 'Guiness-Lite' and 'Hoffmans' I think ! and that was 'Buddy's Bar ' , guess I was'nt there !

Roosta

..in 'Buddy's Lane ' .

neverwasser

Any one remember the pub on Denmark street before it was redeveloped, I think it was on the corner where O' Connells is now. The place was mental.

Cookiemunster

neverwasser wrote: »

Any one remember the pub on Denmark street before it was redeveloped, I think it was on the corner where O' Connells is now. The place was mental.

The original McDaids?

Poxyshamrock

neverwasser wrote: »

Any one remember the pub on Denmark street before it was redeveloped, I think it was on the corner where O' Connells is now. The place was mental.

Joe Malone's?

Cherrycoke

neverwasser wrote: »

Any one remember the pub on Denmark street before it was redeveloped, I think it was on the corner where O' Connells is now. The place was mental.

St. Michaels primary school used to be where O'Connells is now

mgbgt1978

Definitely Joe Malone's, more or less where that asian restaurant is now.......not too many characters like that running pubs nowadays (pity really).

As for Buddy's, if you were new you had to serve your apprenticeship by sitting on a Beer Barrel at the back, in a small hallway, from where you could observe (through the darkness) the real regulars.

Jack bourke's, with the laziest, drunkest Barman in Ireland...quote: "Guinness...tchh, f*&kin' hassle".

Any regulars from "The James Joyce", Ellen St. on here. I used to work (and practically live) there in the 80's.
Big L across the road....the only pirate radio station with a front desk where you could leave in requests etc.:D:D

vkid

Cookiemunster wrote: »

Saints & Scholars became the Market which became Angel Lane.
Saints was the first club I ever went to and I had my first ever pint in the bars upstairs.

I remember before Saints and Scholars it was Arthurs Warehouse. Used to go their on thursdays in college for the Rave.

YFlyer

moby2101 wrote: »

Old enough to have been to most of these establishments also !:) I went to college in Limerick in 89(..do the maths..old!!!)
Is it just me or was there not a much more vibrant nightclub and music scene back then. I remember seeing Something Happens and The 4 of Us loads of times in the two mile inn...Long walk back into town, The Wedding Present in the Parkway! That was an amazing gig.
Anyone remember the Pub where Baileys is now ( ..,NO 15, Boxwells) ...they had a "Music Club" that you had to join, it was a way around licensing hours in the early 90's...U could imbibe away in there on a Thursday/Friday night till the weeeeeee hours!

Don't forget Speakeasy

YFlyer

neverwasser wrote: »

Any one remember the pub on Denmark street before it was redeveloped, I think it was on the corner where O' Connells is now. The place was mental.

Was there the last night before it was knocked down. We were allowed to help ourselves with the books on the shelves.

BobMc

joes was super spot when you weren't of legal age, they used to ask politely if you had id an answer of yes was all they needed and you could only order pints, speakeasy was always a dive in my eyes

Mc Love

Anyone remember Brennans on Catherine St. They used to do lovely toasted sandwiches. Used to wait in there for my dad before he finished work. Remember they had the pool tables upstairs.

Mc Love

Visited this place at Christmas because we couldnt get in the door of Bourkes:
http://stuffinthangs.blogspot.com/2011/02/ma-hogan-she-knows-how-to-pint.html

Never knew it existed

mgbgt1978

I thought that that was the back part of Bourke's ?

seachto7

Tis

Agueroooo

The old quarter

Sacramentum

Seems a bit unusual resurrecting a thread that's almost eight years old but hope someone can help me out. Am wondering if anyone can enlighten me with the location of Feathery Bourkes, Cheers, The Glory Hole and Costellos all of which I believe were old Limerick nightclubs. I'm looking where possible for a street address and what (if anything) is in the same location now. An advance thanks for any trouble taken.

sioda

Sacramentum wrote: »

Seems a bit unusual resurrecting a thread that's almost eight years old but hope somene can help me out. Am wondering if anyone can enlighten me with the location of Feathery Bourkes, Cheers, The Glory Hole and Costellos all of which I believe were old Limerick nightclubs. I'm looking where possible for a street address and what (if anything) is in the same location now. An advance thanks for any trouble taken.

Featherys Shannon Arms Henry Street now apartments
Cheers 35 - 37 Catherine Street now derelict after being a few different watering holes
Glory Hole no clue
Costello's still open Dominic street Limerick

Sacramentum

sioda wrote: »

Featherys Shannon Arms Henry Street now apartments
Cheers 35 - 37 Catherine Street now derelict after being a few different watering holes
Glory Hole no clue
Costello's still open Dominic street Limerick

Very much obliged.

Insect Overlord

A Google search led me to a .pdf of an old "Night Times: What's On In Limerick", an 8-page (independent?) publication of events and night spots in the city. Issue 1, March 1990.

It features a photo of John Kenny (of D'Unbelievables fame) and names him as the co-ordinator of the Glory Hole Comedy Club at the George Hotel.

Cookiemunster

Yeah, the Glory Hole was the bar in the basement of the George. Also known as the Sibin at some stage.

Sacramentum

Insect Overlord wrote: »

A Google search led me to a .pdf of an old "Night Times: What's On In Limerick", an 8-page (independent?) publication of events and night spots in the city. Issue 1, March 1990.

It features a photo of John Kenny (of D'Unbelievables fame) and names him as the co-ordinator of the Glory Hole Comedy Club at the George Hotel.

Thanks very much for that. I thought I'd dreamt it as it has been over a quarter of a century since I frequented many of these places and there may have been drink involved on some of the occasions which doesn't always aid recollections. One I forgot to ask about is Docs which I think subsequently became the Granary. Is the building still there and what's it used for now?

Sacramentum

Cookiemunster wrote: »

Yeah, the Glory Hole was the bar in the basement of the George. Also known as the Sibin at some stage.

Go raibh míle.

source

Sacramentum wrote: »

Thanks very much for that. I thought I'd dreamt it as it has been over a quarter of a century since I frequented many of these places and there may have been drink involved on some of the occasions which doesn't always aid recollections. One I forgot to ask about is Docs which I think subsequently became the Granary. Is the building still there and what's it used for now?

Docs became Trinity Rooms and then Habitat, It's closed now and the newer part of the building (not the original granary building) is being knocked as part of the opera site.

Sacramentum

source wrote: »

Docs became Trinity Rooms and then Habitat, It's closed now and the newer part of the building (not the original granary building) is being knocked as part of the opera site.

Thank you. Had some great nights in there not least the famous 1-1 against Northern Ireland. Maybe it's the rose tinted glasses but there seems to have been a greater variety of social outlets back in the day. Either that or we were easily pleased.

Cherrycoke

Sacramentum wrote: »

Thank you. Had some great nights in there not least the famous 1-1 against Northern Ireland. Maybe it's the rose tinted glasses but there seems to have been a greater variety of social outlets back in the day. Either that or we were easily pleased.

I think it was a bit of both. The names of old pubs and clubs definitely make me feel so nostalgic. Nights out are just not the same anymore.

893bet

I ain’t googling glory hole.

That’s a trap!

Insect Overlord

893bet wrote: »

I ain’t googling glory hole.

That’s a trap!

I did get some rather risqué results before I found the information I was looking for!