Galway: the bainín jacket

smokin · 26-06-2017 12:58PM #1

Back in the 90's I went into O'Máille's in Dominick Street or Quay street, not shop street.
I put a deposit on a Bainín jacket but when I returned a long time later the shop was gone!!
My question is, where have these jackets disappeared to?
I have not seen them for years, these are not knitted wooley cardy's they are wool or tweed jackets.
From what I remember they are collarless and buttonless?
Maybe local to Galway area.
Any one help?

?Cee?view · 26-06-2017 02:57PM

smokin wrote: »

Back in the 90's I went into O'Máille's in Dominick Street or Quay street, not shop street.
I put a deposit on a Bainín jacket but when I returned a long time later the shop was gone!!
My question is, where have these jackets disappeared to?
I have not seen them for years, these are not knitted wooley cardy's they are wool or tweed jackets.
From what I remember they are collarless and buttonless?
Maybe local to Galway area.
Any one help?

I know exactly the type of jacket you mean.

Once you'd get them in Naughton's on High Street, which is now no longer a shop and called Sonny Molloy's; it's one of the entrances to the Front Door pub. Your other possibility is O'Mailles on High Street which is the same people as had the shop years ago on Dominick Street. They stock all that kind of stuff.

Das Kitty · 28-06-2017 03:30PM

http://peppinopeppino.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/IM_image-04.jpg

This (outer pair)?

?Cee?view · 28-06-2017 03:34PM

I'd say similar, but without the buttons

mrsdewinter · 03-07-2017 08:04PM

I'll be honest, I don't really remember what they looked like, though I remember that a councillor (was it?) changed his name to Something 'Bainin' Something. In the 1990s?? Does anybody have a good picture of one? I'm not having much luck with Google Image.

?Cee?view · 03-07-2017 08:31PM

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gentle-champ-of-irish-colleges-dies-25996102.html

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/tributes-paid-to-former-fine-gael-senator-1.1175083

thesandeman · 03-07-2017 08:32PM

mrsdewinter wrote: »

I'll be honest, I don't really remember what they looked like, though I remember that a councillor (was it?) changed his name to Something 'Bainin' Something. In the 1990s?? Does anybody have a good picture of one? I'm not having much luck with Google Image.

You aren't thinking of Séan Bán Breathnach from RnaG/TG4 are you?

Edit: Nope.

?Cee?view · 03-07-2017 08:33PM

thesandeman wrote: »

You aren't thinking of Séan Bán Breathnach from RnaG/TG4 are you?

No, not him. See links above for Pól Bainín ó Foighil

thesandeman · 03-07-2017 08:34PM

Yep. We were posting at the same time.

Galway: the bainín jacket

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