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Pictures and memories from old Galway

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    #662
    kabakuyu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,369 ✭✭✭kabakuyu


    des kellys


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    #663
    GalwayGaillimh
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭GalwayGaillimh


    The Base Inn

    Si Deus Nobiscum Qui Contra Nos



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    #664
    jkforde
    Registered Users Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭jkforde


    Just been reading some Old Galway articles and this one talks about the “Gas Tank” Flaherty’s pub on Docks Rd...

    https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/117091/the-black-and-tans-raid-on-oflahertys-pub

    Pub later became Brennan's Pub.

    Am looking on geohive but can't work out where it was. Anyone know where it was?

    🌦️ 6.7kwp, 45°, SSW, mid-Galway 🌦️



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    #665
    westgolf
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    jkforde wrote: »
    Just been reading some Old Galway articles and this one talks about the “Gas Tank” Flaherty’s pub on Docks Rd...

    https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/117091/the-black-and-tans-raid-on-oflahertys-pub

    Pub later became Brennan's Pub.

    On the right hand side of the computer fix-it place, as you look from the harbour hotel towards merchants road direction.


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    jkforde
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    westgolf wrote: »
    On the right hand side of the computer fix-it place, as you look from the harbour hotel towards merchants road direction.

    cheers, gotta love boardies! :)

    🌦️ 6.7kwp, 45°, SSW, mid-Galway 🌦️



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    #667
    touchdown77
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    Brennans Pub was in the premises that Techstar now occupies


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    #668
    inisboffin
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    Many’s a good night in Brennan’s. Lovely pub.


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    #669
    jkforde
    Registered Users Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭jkforde


    inisboffin wrote: »
    Many’s a good night in Brennan’s. Lovely pub.

    blow-in envy right there!

    it'd be class if SteetView would incorporate old photos like this one, it'd be some project for the archivists!

    🌦️ 6.7kwp, 45°, SSW, mid-Galway 🌦️



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    #670
    Placebo Effect
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    Adrian Brennan, of Brennan’s pub , was goalie on a Galway minor All Ireland winning football team..late 80s ..

    A bit of trivia there ..

    Old school drinking pub, a little bit more upmarket than the other Docks pubs at the time notably the Harbour.


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    #671
    Coillte_Bhoy
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    What were the early houses called? I should know, i was in both a few mornings back in the day but the names escape me now. Rubin is there now and the other one was The Harbour i think??


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    Breaston Plants
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    Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »
    What were the early houses called? I should know, i was in both a few mornings back in the day but the names escape me now. Rubin is there now and the other one was The Harbour i think??

    The Harbour bar, and the other where Rubin is now was Padraicins.


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    #673
    Gremlinertia
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    Was Padraics I'm pretty sure.. Named for o Conaire the poet..


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    #674
    Coillte_Bhoy
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    Breaston Plants wrote: »
    The Harbour bar, and the other where Rubin is now was Padraicins.

    Ah of course and what occupies where Harbour Bar used to be


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    #675
    westgolf
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    Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »
    Ah of course and what occupies where Harbour Bar used to be

    David Martin Hair Salon


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    #676
    [Deleted User]
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    Gremlinertia wrote: »
    Was Padraics I'm pretty sure.. Named for o Conaire the poet..

    Yep Padraig's. Padraicins is in Furbo.


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    #677
    Paddico
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    Breaston Plants wrote: »
    The Harbour bar, and the other where Rubin is now was Padraicins.

    I think the Harbour Bar closed around 1995 time.
    When I was in college, it was rumored to be where you could pick up a lady of the night.

    Apparently the code word was to ask for a box of matches :D


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    #678
    dilallio
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    Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »
    Ah of course and what occupies where Harbour Bar used to be
    westgolf wrote: »
    David Martin Hair Salon

    Also, Arch Motors was to the right of the Harbour Bar a few doors down. The building where Boojum and Eastern Tandoori are was built on the Arch Motors site.


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    Fozzie Bear
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    inisboffin wrote: »
    Many’s a good night in Brennan’s. Lovely pub.

    We used to meet up in Brennans back in the day to watch Leeds United games.

    I was actually in Tech star about 3 weeks ago as it happens with phone issues. First time I'd set foot in the place since it was Brennans. Happy memories of the place, lovely cosy wee spot.


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    Andrea B.
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    Paddico wrote: »
    I think the Harbour Bar closed around 1995 time.
    When I was in college, it was rumored to be where you could pick up a lady of the night.

    Apparently the code word was to ask for a box of matches :D

    And a rumor was all it was.
    But I guess they sold a fair load of matches.


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    Storm 10
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    Andrea B. wrote: »
    And a rumor was all it was.
    But I guess they sold a fair load of matches.



    Not forgetting "Woodbine Annie" in Key Street I guess that's where you went with the matches to light up the Woodbine


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    #682
    [Deleted User]
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    Paddico wrote: »
    Apparently the code word was to ask for a box of matches :D

    ... and it was a 'box of red matches' in the Stella café in High street. Allegedly.


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    Gadgetman496
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    StevieHardesty wrote: »
    ... and it was a 'box of red matches' in the Stella café in High street. Allegedly.

    100% correct ;)

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



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    kabakuyu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,369 ✭✭✭kabakuyu


    StevieHardesty wrote: »
    ... and it was a 'box of red matches' in the Stella café in High street. Allegedly.

    Used to shout it in the door and get a chase from Mario.:)


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    kabakuyu
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    Breaston Plants wrote: »
    The Harbour bar, and the other where Rubin is now was Padraicins.

    Padraigs was previously Delargys.


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    #686
    zell12
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    Where was Tesco in 1982 Galway? How big was it?

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    Unrealistic
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120662644#Comment_120662644

    It was in what is now Dunnes Stores Westside.



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    zell12
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120662719#Comment_120662719

    Really, was that not H Williams?



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    #689
    Unrealistic
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120662752#Comment_120662752

    It might have been H Williams at one point too but, unless my memory has gone completely, it was the location of the first Tesco store in Galway before they pulled out of Ireland.

    EDIT: D'internet says H Williams bought it from Tesco.

    Tesco Ireland was also the name of an earlier chain of stores in the Republic of Ireland owned by Tesco PLC in the early 1980s. These were originally founded by Albert Gubay as 3 Guys. In 1986, these were sold to the H Williams chain of supermarkets which subsequently collapsed. Many ended up as outlets of other chains.

    https://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Quinnsworth



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    #690
    decko11
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/57451617#Comment_57451617

    no not so, Both BOI on Eyre sq were built as bank in the 1840s.. The one closed down was originally the National Bank - I remember in the 70s it had "National Branch" emblazoned on side external wall



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    ben.schlomo
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121645286#Comment_121645286

    I'm sure Deleted User from 2008 will reply soon.



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