Isn`t this the pub just on the left when you arrive at Miltown on the road from Ennis ?
If it is, it used to be Willie Clancy`s regular. I saw him in there once but he wasn`t playing unfortunately.
Doesn`t this pub also go by the name of Friel`s ? My memory is a bit rusty down the years, but no doubt one of the locals will correct me if I`m wrong.
Mike
Friel's it was. Tom and Maisy. Yes Willie did play there Gerry and I played with him once. Pat Burns(whistle,Waterford) hid there on many weekends and lived of Maisy's sausage-sandwitches and slept up in the attic room many a night and woke to the sound of a horse and cart rumble past. Treasured memories.
'tas always a great place for a session and thankfully the front and "parlour-bar" havent changed. Though the "Gents" (a gutter in the side passage) has.
Through the summer months (and maybe all year - I haven't been to Clare at any other time of year) there seem to be sessions most nights of the week in Friels. Jacky Daly, Bernadette McCarthy, Henry Benagh, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Edel Fox are among the regular musicians there.
Bernadette McCarthy is very welcoming but for the rest- not the case. I found them to be cliquish and humorless. Not much craic. Sure they can play- but it's not much fun.
Lynch`s, Miltown Malbay
Isn`t this the pub just on the left when you arrive at Miltown on the road from Ennis ?
If it is, it used to be Willie Clancy`s regular. I saw him in there once but he wasn`t playing unfortunately.
Doesn`t this pub also go by the name of Friel`s ? My memory is a bit rusty down the years, but no doubt one of the locals will correct me if I`m wrong.
Mike
# Posted on September 23rd 2004 by murfbox
Friel's
Friel's it was. Tom and Maisy. Yes Willie did play there Gerry and I played with him once. Pat Burns(whistle,Waterford) hid there on many weekends and lived of Maisy's sausage-sandwitches and slept up in the attic room many a night and woke to the sound of a horse and cart rumble past. Treasured memories.
'tas always a great place for a session and thankfully the front and "parlour-bar" havent changed. Though the "Gents" (a gutter in the side passage) has.
# Posted on September 26th 2004 by Peter O'Connor
Friel's
Second line should read Pat Burns and I ...hid there...
# Posted on September 26th 2004 by Peter O'Connor
Through the summer months (and maybe all year - I haven't been to Clare at any other time of year) there seem to be sessions most nights of the week in Friels. Jacky Daly, Bernadette McCarthy, Henry Benagh, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Edel Fox are among the regular musicians there.
# Posted on September 30th 2004 by ragaman
Friel's
Yes, there are sessions most nights of the year during the summer, but mainly friday and saturday nights during the winter months.
# Posted on March 10th 2005 by edelfox
Welcoming- not
Bernadette McCarthy is very welcoming but for the rest- not the case. I found them to be cliquish and humorless. Not much craic. Sure they can play- but it's not much fun.
# Posted on August 5th 2007 by cocus