American Reacts to the OLDEST Pub in the World - Sean's Bar in Ireland
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In this video I react to Sean's Bar in Athlone Ireland - the oldest pub in the world. While I know there's a huge Irish pub culture and I expected for Sean's bar to be old, I was shocked to find out this pub is over 1100 years old!
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I live about half an hour from this pub, i'v drank here many, many times. Nice pub. It has been open continually as a drinking establishment, although it did close during the national lockdown in 2020. Another fact. This was the first pub, outside of Dublin to serve Guinness. They have a small section of the original 'Wattle and daub" (Woven sticks and mud) wall on display in the bar. It was discovered during renovations, along with a lot of the documentation used to substantiate their claim. If you do plan on giving this place a visit, I suggest going on a weekday preferably afternoon if you want to be able to look around properly as it gets very busy at weekends and evenings.
Very cool! Thanks for the tip
@@reactingtomyroots NP, when your over I'll meet you there for a pint ... or 2
A bar is just the counter at a pub. You go up to the bar to get your drink and order your food, if they sell food. You could normally get crisps and nuts there too.
I'd consider a Bar as a venue that people go to drink in that is not local to the clientele, i.e. in a town or city center venue that attracts many people from the surrounding areas. Where seating is limited or non-existent, background music is loud, door staff vet entry and that is normally crowded. This definition is very similar to a nightclub, and really the only difference is that a night club would normally charge an entrance fee. Night clubs are bigger on average than a Bar, but I have been to some small Clubs and some large bars.
There are also sports bars. These, like bars, attract clientele from all over, but they don't have the loud music. Instead they have sports on throughout the day and tend to be more of a day time attraction and will hence normally serve bar food (Expect everything to be fried in grease)
At the battle of Bamber Bridge the landlords said we are not taking orders in a pub that's older than your country.
There are multiple pubs in the UK older than 6-8 hundred years.
Check out the Trip in Nottingham
Strange that an Irish pub would misspell the name Seán. Because sean without the accent means old in Irish.
500 year old pubs are nothing special on this side of the pond.
haha yeah, I'm sure.
In Ireland, when we say 'bar', we're referring to the literal wooden (usually wooden) structure within the pub where the drinks are. Most pubs in Ireland don't serve food, although many do.
Pubs dont have to serve food.
It also holds the record of being both the starting point and finishing point of the shortest pub crawl in history
There’s a pub in Nottingham called ye olde trip to Jerusalem that is under the castle it’s the oldest pub I’ve ever got drunk in. 1189 you have to keep a beer mat over your pint as the ceiling crumbles and falls into your pint, it is where the prisoners were thrown in t let the die.
Hi, Steve. Your reaction videos stand out to me because of your honesty and integrity. You are obviously really interested in your research. Pubs are not easy to define and certainly have changed in my lifetime. When I was little, none of the pubs in town served food, and children were not allowed inside them. Women still sat in the snug and in the bar, men played pub games such as dominoes and darts. In addition to pubs, there were tap rooms. Tap rooms were smaller and I think sold only beers, and of course, cider in my area. Over the years commercial pressures arising from people having more entertainment options, including in their own homes, forced many pubs to close and those remaining to diversify into serving food and becoming more child friendly. Remember, though, that old pub hours prevented pubs opening for Long during the day, so going to the pub usually happened after children were in bed. Anyway, thank you for your interesting and entertaining videos.
Hey Jeremy! I really appreciate the kind words and the additional insight. Thanks for watching!
You should check out Ye Old Trip to Jeruselem in Nottingham i think you will find its history very interesting. it is built under Nottingham Castle.
Yes! I've seen that recommended in several comments now. I'll have to check it out. Thanks :)
Originally a Public House was used by the community because it served beer. Beer was a common beverage in ancient times and was often consumed as a source of hydration due to its lower alcohol content compared to other alcoholic beverages such as wine or rum. Some historians believe that beer was originally brewed with hops not for flavor but for its preservative qualities. This would have made beer less likely to spoil and therefore safer to drink than water that may have been contaminated with bacteria or other harmful substances. Thus, a pub was one of the few ways people could get access to something safe to drink after it had gone dark. Remember, running water didn't exist even as a concept at this point, as water to the homes was first introduced in London in the 1600s by Sir Hugh Myddelton, and took water from River Lea. Getting drunk was a byproduct of drinking beers but wasn't the main reason to drink. Of course, while people drank beer in pubs as a source of safe drinking water, it is also likely that they enjoyed the taste and social atmosphere of these establishments.
we had a well in the garden they did not put in running water until I was about 10,
That was the case in britain not in ireland whiskey was invented in ireland but the native irish would have drank buttermilk instead of water rather than beer.A spanish sea captain stranded on a beach in northwestern ireland wrote of this in his journals.The Irish pub owes its its origins to the brehon laws on hospitality where each chieftain/lord had to maintain a hostelry for weary travellers.
Not quite right many of the higher class roman villas had water direct to their homes; your facts are right about more general water supply, but certainly the concept predates Sir Hugh Myddelton.
The New River ran past my primary school in East Hertfordshire.
My Dad lived in Hornsey, London Borough of Haringey. Their back garden ran down to the New River. The New River was dug in the 17th century to supply London with clean water.
The clue there is possibly.
Most pubs sell food, but not all. The pubs that don’t serve food tend to be busier in the evening than the day and not so family orientated.
Exactly that
Not in Ireland. Most pubs do not sell food.
@@samuelmcgovern thanks Samuel. I didn’t know that. I guess it’s more an English thing.
@@suzielees5227 I would say that is largely because of wetherspoons though there in dublin now.Usually in ireland you won't have a problem getting pub grub,but samuel is right most pubs don't.
@@gallowglass2630 I’m learning along with our American friend!
Depends how you categorise oldest Steve? With Sean's bar in Ireland, it's probably correct but if you look in the comments there are lots of "opinions" depending on how it's categorised? Oldest "continual" pub in the UK is probably "The Fighting Cocks" in St Albans. The oldest pub but not continual, from AD 560, is possibly "The Old Ferry Boat, near St Ives in Cambridgeshire, however there's not much of the original building left. Or could it be the "Six Bells" also in St Albans? Parts of the cellar are from a Roman Tavern (Pre AD 410). Probably not, as it was shut for a few hundred years before being redeveloped! What we can say is, you can argue for and against all of them!
Guinness Book of Records disagrees 😊
Spot on John, it's a far from exact science
@@Maxibloke Which copy, which year? Yours may do but have you read the criteria? Obviously not! Plus this is the Guinness book of records and I have a couple of older copies that both differ from each other. For the UK, one says the Fighting Cocks and the other from the seventies says it's The Old Trip............. Which is correct, you tell me?
Things have changed somewhat in recent years as regards food and children in Pubs. Back in the 1960's when I first became old enough to enter a Public House and buy alcohol many Pubs didn't serve food, or if they did only a limited menu with restricted hours. Children were only permitted within the dinning area, if it existed. The layout of the Pub is as varied as the number of Pubs, but typically there would be a Public Bar, where mostly working men went, a Lounge Bar which would be a bit smarter and had a more 'middle class' clientele, and sometimes a 'Snug' where the ladies could go. There was often 'Off Sales' as well where you could buy beer or spirits to consume at home. The character of the Pub also varied depending where it was located. Rural or 'Country' Pubs had a different feel to those found in large towns, and that could be different again to those in coastal towns where there were ships calling or a local fishing fleet. These days things seem to be more open as regards who goes where with many Pubs specialising in food and families and others going for the 'Sports Bar' approach with a large screen TV showing football and other sports. Each Pub has it's own character that reflects the area it serves.
yes when i was younger we was not allowed in a pub, I had to sit in beer garden dad would bring me out a lemonade and smith crisps a child was safe to be out on our own in those days
@@lesdonovan7911 Yes, I share that experience
@@tonym480 Yes and sometimes a lady staff member at a country pub would have a 'Children's bar' with crisps, lemonade or squash outside from a stable or other out-house. Usually a couple of bales with a board across and cardboard cups.
You should look at the Old Trip to Jerusalem in Nottingham, was originally the brewhouse of Nottingham castle and is an interesting place. Claims to date back to 1189
Steve, a 'pub' does NOT have to serve food... although many do 'now', because it helps to bring in needed money to keep the place viable! Also, many small pubs (sometimes called 'bars') are just that - 'small' - so don't have the space or a kitchen area to serve food, but might do 'bar snacks'. They also, may ONLY be a 'bar', so you walk in, order your drinks and either stand where able (space being limited) or maybe sit at the few available tables & chairs (often stools or banquette style seating).
When I lived in London, pubs were closing at an alarming rate.
Now I live in a tiny village, there's three, two of which are practically next door to each other. All very old with beams and fireplaces. Lovely.
@Steve in the context of a pub, the bar is the part of a pub where you pay and collect your drinks and place orders for food.
For example, you might say to your friends at a table in the pub “I’ll order drinks at the bar”
This makes a lot of sense! Thanks :)
Pubs don’t have to serve food, we still call it a pub. There is usually a bar area and a separate lounge, traditionally, as well as what was the snug for women, though many have removed them now. A bar is usually in city’s and it’s open plan and doesn’t serve food. It’s aimed at younger people. Sean’s pub was originally opened by a guy who assisted people crossing the river in. Athlone and the town of Athlone was named after him as more and more people settled in the area. I live half an hours drive from there but I’ve yet to visit Sean’s 😊
5.30 for a pint is good though. We were out in Dublin last night and it was €7.50 for a pint of Guinness!
Obviously the building is not the same,it just drink was served in the same footprint of the building, probably had rudimentary walls and roof with old stone floor and very basic inside,used by farmers working the land.
“The old trip to Jerusalem” Nottingham is the oldest pub, it’s also part cave built into the cliff walls of Nottingham castle
Yes, I used to drink there in the late 60s/early 70s. I lived in the 'posh' part of Bulwell and loved the town nightlife. The good old days when you knew all the bouncers by name.
I went to a pub in the south of England that claimed to be the oldest in the world. I guess there's no way to know for sure.
@@c_n_bold trip to Jerusalem was built in 1189.
Yeh this one was supposed to be over 1000 years old. Wish I could remember where it was or what it was called! I guess without a time machine we'll never know.
@c_n_b possibly Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St Albans?
They may well have been serving alcohol from that site, but no way in hell does that building date from 900ad. There're several pubs in Britain that trace their roots back to 5,6 or 700ad. One of the oldest, still original pubs is "Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem" built into the cliff below Nottingham Castle in 1189, soldiers on their way to the crusades used to stop there.
Sean's bar has written record of all owners and the generations of family that owned and ran the pub back to 900 AD and it is also in the Guinness book of records as the oldest pub on record. So it's quite a bit older than the pub your talking about.
@@dkinclonberne I was referring too the originality of the building itself, how many times has Seans bar been demolished and rebuilt in a more modern style? I was pointing out that Ye Olde Trip was still original.
We know in mainland England there are certainly a bunch of pubs & inns that go back to the 1100s and 1200s - and we can prove it from either surviving records or architectural evidence. The further and further back you go of course, the harder that evidence becomes to prove; I'd love to know the provenance of this place to show its roots back to the 10th century. It's certainly possible; but just wattle & daub on the walls by itself doesn't seem so very date-able as evidence alone.
Hope they keep checking the use by dates on the crisps, nuts and pork scratchings. lol.
This seams like most Irish tales mostly steeped in myth and mystery or as is now called fairytales
Fairytales are still better than British lies imo
I believe the Guinness book of records. Lots and lots of research done. Sean's is the oldest pub in the world 😊
Not every pub sells food. Usually the busier and more hard core it is, the less chance there is. I've been in pubs where you ask about food and they look at you weird and ask if you mean crisps? I wouldn't recommend hanging about past the one pint. Those kind of places tend to have their regulars and don't particularly like or want "new" people.
Look up Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St Albans, it was recognised by the Guinness World Record books as older, it was founded in 793 AD!
Thanks for the recommendation!
I am a bit biased they wouldn't let me in i was 17 but still the evidence is not as strong as for seans which is also recognised by the national museum of ireland.
I never knew a SNUG was a place for the lady back in the day I always thought of them a posh places for higher class, I used to play pool or throw arrows so tap room for me but I found this informative, I was on the pubs pool team btw❤❤
Very cool! I used to play pool back in the day, too.
Pubs started selling food because the revenue from alcohol was declining. My local pub turned the games room (snooker and darts) into a restaurant to attract families and introduce another income stream. I remember there being four pubs in our village but only two are still in business.
There's a "British" pub where my cousin lives in Florida.
From the outside it looks like something from a factory estate, and inside has loads of flags hanging up, many Irish 🤣🤣
I lived in the USA for a bit and was homesick. A friend took me to a 'British pub' that has a mannequin in the corner dressed as a beefeater and flags etc everywhere. Was a lovely idea but did little for the homesickness.
Yes, you've hit the nail right on the head.
A pub is a family affair where you can get food (if you want).
I sometimes go just for coffee and check my emails or watch the news on their television.
I often will sit in the garden area.
In winter, there's usually a log fire burning (especially outside London) - yet another reason why any tourist visiting just the big city is comparable to visiting New York and saying "I've seen the USA".
Thanks for the information. A real log burning fireplace to hang out in front of sounds like it would make for an awesome atmosphere and drinking experience!
Its a pub, pubs do not have to serve food at all.
You have to take these 'oldest pub' claims with massive pinches of salt, even if there is a certificate in the bar. Just think about what we define as a pub/bar/inn, etc. compared to what would have been called one in pre-commercialised days. If a pub is lucky to stay a pub over time, it will likely change its name several times unless there is a defining geographic feature. There is a pub less than 10 miles from me that allegedly dates back to 560AD... so even older than Sean's. But you won't find anything clearly and obviously 1500 years old in it. And yet, it strongly lays claim to be the oldest in England because of "records". Dating buildings that have been in constant use and that aren't churches or castles is almost impossible unless there are unsullied architectural features (e.g. windows and doors) made of stone. Sean's Bar itself is maybe 300 years old or so at best, although its footprint is clearly much older. Its claim lies heavily on the ancient wattle wall found on the site, and on the Luain Mac Luighdeach name. Also, the Guinness Book of Records call it the ‘Oldest Pub in Ireland’, not the world. As such a claim world, ultimately, be a bit silly to try and defend.
Generally refers to the recording of a pub or alehouse on that site , but not necessarily the same building . The Bingley Arms in Yorkshire comes close with 953 AD possibly 905 AD .
A tavern js from the latin Taberna from Roman , basically a hut or tent type structure selling beer ( tabernacle) . An alehouse is a private dwelling not under licence or control of the Manor , off the beaten track which supplied ale , food and often a bed for the night with the alewife . A pub is a licenced alehouse ( publically licenced) under manorial control . An inn has all these features plus extensive accommodation , basically somewhere to stay ' in ' for any period of time .
This is in Ireland not the Uk. Romans where never here. So no taverns or alehouses. You will not find them in Ireland.
@@murpho999 No Romans no taverns but Ireland had alehouse as they were peculiar to the British which were there from the 12th century after the Anglo Norman invasion for nearly 800 years and the provision of ale and beer would have followed the same pattern of being brewed at manorial levels for the farm workers or public licence houses for everyone else . It seems the term left Ireland in the 18th and 19th century's and found its way to the colonies where the Irish Alehouse survives around Boston and New York and various cities in Australia and Pubs , the oldest being around 200 YO with Pubs , Bars and Lounges remaining common terms in Ireland.
@@georgerobartes2008To a certain extent but the anglonormans went native quite quickly and adopted the brehon laws.Irish pubs have there origin mostly in the brehon hospitality laws.There was march law(near dublin) for a time that was based on english law in some places and there would have been alehouses,but there was also the ostan which every clan chief had to provide free of charge where whiskey ,mead and wine rather than beer.Beer wasn't a big thing in ireland till the 17th century butter milk was drank instead of water because it was safer,not beeer as was the case in britain.
@@georgerobartes2008 Except the Anglo-normans or old English never ruled ireland for 800 years and most of them became Irish and got rid of English culture after a few centuries. Maybe in the pale.
True the Bar is the counter but also a pub traditionally (if large enough) has a Bar and Lounge as seperate rooms.
Tiny pubs like Sean's or smaller would only have the Bar and typicaly didn't serve food. Though many do now.
There are still some where women would get side-ways looks or simply not be served. They tend to be the old man pubs and generally a bit dingier than modern Pubs, no TV, dim, same faces at the bar.. Think Moe's from the Simpson's only smaller space.
Love an old pub my local is very young 1500s 😊.
The isle I live on has 9 pubs only 3 serve food.
Nine pubs for a population of only 14500 people..............great for pub crawling games.
We also have bars in the UK that just serve alcohol, no food apart from snacks. Cocktail bars are also becoming more popular.and gin is certainly trending in the UK
I live in Cork city in Ireland and one of my favourite pubs in the city is a small traditional "old mans pub" called The Castle Inn. It is tiny and still has a snug but the rules from before dont apply lol. Open fire place and the smoking area is also the mens toilets
Would be interesting to know how old the Castle Inn is. The ODonovans renovated the building recently. However left the pub as it had always been. Brilliant pub to go into for a pint during the day as the size make it essential to salute the person along side to you and many long friendship have started this way.
'Sean's Bar has been researched thoroughly by the Guinness Book of Records and proudly holds the record for "The Oldest Pub in Ireland" with an official dating of 900AD.
Research is ongoing into the title of "The Oldest Pub in the World"; so far, nothing older has been found.'
'Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, Nottingham, built in 1189, is England's oldest surviving inn, just ask our resident ghosts. We were aptly christened when King Richard the Lionheart and his men congregated here before embarking on the Crusades in Jerusalem.'
Lots of pubs in UK as well as in Ireland still have snugs, sometimes with their own entrances, but they're no longer used as a seperate area. Larger snugs are sometimes known as a lounge, then the bar is the male area of the pub.
Are you trying to get cancelled?
The bar is the part of the pub you buy your drink.
Many have/had a "bar" that ran the length of it.
Oldest Pub in England is the 'trip to jerusalem' UNDER Nottingham Castle
In a pub you will find a BAR AND A LOUNGE!
LOUNGE USUALLY BIGGER THAN THE BAR!
Nottingham has two pubs from the year 1200, The Trip to Jerusalem and the Ye old Salutation..
Basically it's a case of 'my grandfather's axe' - it's had several new handles and new blades, but it's still my grandfathers axe. (Do you have that saying in the US?)
Clearly there are records of a 'pub' being on the site continuously since 900 AD, but it's been rebuilt and refitted many times since then.
The concept of the 'snug' for women is the same throughout the UK- these days of course, it's just a quieter more comfortable room in the pub than the main bar, there's no discrimination. Often you come in throught the main door and then turn either right or left depending on which room you want. They're usually serviced by the same bar, which is situated between the two. It wasn't until 1982 that it became illegal to refuse to serve women in pubs - and yes I have typed that date correctly! However, women began frequenting pubs more and more through the 20th century, and by the 1980's very very few establishments would have had those rules anyway.
Not all pubs serve food. When I was young (1970's and1980's)most pubs didn't. Children were also not allowed in at all unless they were eating a meal - you had to be 14+ to go in and be bought a soft drink. These days almost all pubs do at least some food-but you need to check first, and children are allowed much more, even if no-one is eating. Many pubs specifically have a small play area in the pub garden for kids. Times have changed a lot! Before 1988, pubs in the UK were generally only allowed to open between about 11am and 3pm, and then had to shut by law until they reopened for the evening at say 6.30-11pm. There were exceptions in particular locations, but this was the expected norm. Now they are usually open continuously between about 11 am and 11pm, with many having late licenses on some days of th week- like midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.
haha interesting! No, I don't believe we have that saying here in the US. I appreciate your detailed response! :)
That's the original bar man as well.....the magic of Irish whiskey 😉
Most pubs didn't serve food. Beer, wine, spirits, nuts and crisps only. Gradually they became more like restaurants and allowed children in if dining with family.
In reality there' a no hard and fast difference between a pub and a bar, its a continuum. Pubs are more likely to serve food, but not all do and there's bars that serve basic food. Essentially a pub is a pub because it "feels" like a pub - traditional, maybe old, areas for families, all ages, but with a higher proportion of older people. etc
I'm Irish, but i have never been in Sean's Bar. To be honest the building doesn't look at all like it is 1,100 years old. I suspect it has gone through much alteration and renovation down the centuries and what exists today, although it is on the same site, may be quite different from the original bar, whatever it was called through the centuries.
Who can say that there was a pub operating on that site continually over every one of the last 1,100 years. What may be 1,100 years old is the liquor license that allows the owner to sell alcoholic drink on the premises.
Village I used to live in, Ruardean, forest of dean, Gloucestershire has a pub called The Malt Shovel Inn known to been an Inn since 1110, some pretty old places if you look about.
a pub in my town - Fletchers - only began allowing women into it around 30 years ago, and it took them about 10 years to install proper female toilets. also, the owner didn't allow music or have a tv and once famously threw Ronnie Wood out for playing his guitar... R.I.P. Tommy
Go n'éirí an t-ádh leat ☘
It was socially unacceptable for women to go to public houses in the early twentieth century. They were haunts of ladles of the night in some areas. Think Whitechapel in 1888. The association in the collective memory remained on. Likewise, it was unacceptable for women to wear make-up for the same reason.
When this changed, I would guess the 1930s and 1940s. My grandparents want to pubs together in these years leaving their only son to stand outside until they came out again. Occasionally, he got salted crisps and lemonade. Sometimes another boy would be outside with him. His parents were quite unconcerned about strangers accosting him. What really upset him was that dogs weren't barred. We'd drive across north London pre M25 from Hertfordshire and he'd say;
"I've stood outside that one and that one. "
Man every time I look at you I think of Kenny powers, don’t know why but it’s uncanny, hello from Ireland 🇮🇪
I live near Sean's Bar, loads of pubs in Ireland had snugs! There is another pub in Dublin, The Brazen Head" claims to be the oldest pub in Ireland, but there is more evidence of Sean's Bar being the true one!
1 `pub'
a pub is a building where people meet friends and have drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, and sometimes food.
this can also be called a public house.
2 `bar'
In American English, a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks is usually called a bar.
The word bar is sometimes used, especially to refer to a place serving alcoholic drinks that is part of a larger building, or in expressions such as hotel bar and cocktail bar.
Eg meet you in the hotel bar in 20 minutes.
This pub is not in Britain so your post is irrelevant.
Public houses serve food generally but there is some that don't.
I do remember as a child that some Public houses serving pies and others serving dinners, you would have A bar, a Saloon and a restaurant and a sug within one Public House within the saloon you may also have a dance floor.
Today not many Public houses do food now as the government of the day relaxed some of the licensing laws, now theyre coming in line with the EU laws that permit drinking through the night till 6am and that goes for nite clubs as well.
By permitting more changes in our laws what would happen.
To the culture within the Irish society.
Especially within local niebourhoods.
Bring back the old Public houses that were more family orientated.
Where going to a Public house had less an emphasis on selling a quite a number of drinks that would make you drunk instead have a more pleasant experience within a relaxed atmosphere and have a bit to eat slso.
Nite clubs would also be more enjoyable as they used to be with food on the Manu with a sublamintary supper ticket on entry.
While paying at the door.
Bring it all back.
Pubs do not have to serve food. Most did not in the UK and Ireland, unless they were an Inn or a Club or part of a Hotel, until it became popular relatively recently. Many traditional Pubs tilted their customer target to keep their businesses open and decided to favour families, singles and professionals seeking food and a drink at lunch time. But evenings were for drinking and peanuts/crisps only and no children. Now eating at pubs in the UK at least is common. So is having a non family/food quite time. Many older pubs in the UK still have snugs but now anyone may use them as a slightly quieter area.
Pubs, as they are now, are not in any way resembling pubs of my youth 50 years plus ago, they never sold food apart from crisps ( potato chips to you)and such, they just sold beer mild and bitter and bottled stout, the range was very limited the optic on the wall had a covering of dust folk couldn't afford spirits, oh and the beer always tasted better! I speak as a Yorkshireman.
Your getting confused over nothing, I live i a village with 4 pubs , no food served in any of them, I believe no real country pub should serve food but some aren't busy enough to survive on alochol sales alone, I am just lucky where I live kilworth co cork just old school pubs where no food just pints and craic
Can British people watching this stop thinking pubs in Britain are the exact same as Ireland. There’s no breweries, no landlords, no taverns or alehouses. Plenty serve food and the pub scene and culture is very different in Ireland to UK.
Also some people think this pub is in the Uk and it’s not which is means it’s also not in the British Isles either.
Exactly.Taverns come from the roman period ireland wasn't invaded by romans
Well said Murph I agree. There's no comparison. Seans is in my hometown and has been proven to be the oldest pub/bar in Ireland and possibly the world 🌎 Thanks everyone your welcome 😊
Sean's is a nice tourist attraction, but they don't show you the inside because the bar is tiny, possibly 30 feet by 20feet and because the bar is in the middle it only holds about 20 people, there is a new extension out the back where most people go and relax with their drink and Murphy's is served in Sean's and is a far better drink than Guinness.
A bar is the counter tgey sell drinks at. In fact a bar gets its name from the foot bar that customers can rest a foot on. A pub has a bar to sell drinks and an INN is a pub that you can stay in and used to have stables etc for horses. Some Inn's no longer have accomodation but will usially keep the name for bhistorical reasons. Some inner city areas may have places callex bars but tgey are generally pubs and just calling themselves bars to sound more illitest. The are pubs. Drinks cant be served to under 18's but parents can let there over 14's have a drink. Because its difficult to prove it wasnt served to the 14 year old pub will generally discourage the practice. Pubs especially older ones will have a public bar and a family bar with tge latter being where families go but they dont have to. I think these family bars in an old pub was originally have been what was called the snug in your video.
Snugs are one of the best places for a piss up with friends. Start off hard. 5 or 6 pints later people tend to drift off, chatting to randomers, going for a smoke, getting something to eat. People wander in, seeing a free chair and wanting to sit down. Start up a conversation and before you know it, there are 3 or 4 strangers sitting around a fire having the craic and leathering back pints.... some one you've been in rounds with all day, hands you a pint over some ones shoulder. You don't even see their face.... then realise you that you haven't been outside for a few hours,head for a piss and it's dark. The evening is gone. Head out to the main bar, place is packed and the craic is hopping.
They're some great fucking nights. Hon lads!
The snug was a small cubicle separate from the main bar where women were served through a hatch from the bar which was the domain of men. Snugs survive in pubs all over the country but nowadays are for everyone. Pubs in Ireland do not necessarily serve food. Places like hotels would have a bar as opposed to being a pub.
Pubs are Simply public houses and serve alcohol, there is no expectation of food for it to be a pub, . The distinction of bar and pub is that bars tend to be modern built in the centre of towns/cities but it can still be referred to as a pub (since pub was a generalisation of Inn/Tavern where inns provide food and accommodation as well as alcohol, taverns where drinking places that may serve food). The term bar is relatively modern and tends to be used to present a more up class/trendy establishment (even though many are not) . With cheap supermarket beer pubs are targeting food to increase profits, many of the breweries /pub chains have culled their drink only pubs in favour of the bigger food pubs. We do however have a new class of pub called the micro-pub, generally one room selling good beers as opposed to the ones that are in half the pubs. This means smaller buildings, lower rent easier to fill and because they sell premium beer over cheap beer tend not to attract the rough crowds!
There’s two pubs in my small English town that were built 600 years ago…
Check out Trip to Jerusalem, its a pub in Nottingham its really old, not as old as this, but it's built into rock.
It's a section of the pub but as you walked in the door a small room was cut off from the bar for ladies only it was still in fashion in the 50/60 peace Dublin Ireland 😜😜😜
No it is NOT the oldest anything and certainly NOT 1100 years old.
The Guinness book of records says otherwise.
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SO what ? Utter twaddle and nonsense and the usual FAICHE NARRATIVE from the Failed State.
It’s also very easy to by alcoholic drinks in the uk, most corner shops/convenience stores sell beer wine and liquor. And supermarkets have a whole section selling alcohol
There's no distinctions between a bar or pub in Ireland because they all preform the same function as all of them will serve food and entertainment like live bands and it's because they're trying to out preform each other in a sort of booze arms race, i will tell you one thing i don't miss the endless nights of being in a pub and been packed in there like a can of sardines and not being able to hear or talk while sweeting off your face from the crowd of people in a building with no ventilation, that i don't miss at all, it slowed down and became bearable during the global brain fart and the CCP coof but it's basically the same again where a pub with the capacity for 100 people and yet you'd find about 400 people crammed in there, fecking stupid
More pubs started serving food when drink driving became a thing.
Originally the building was made of wattle and daub,basically intertwined rods of hazel daubed with mud.Some of it survived and from that they were able to carbon date it
Presuming the carbon dating was around 900AD, that does not mean it was a drinking house to start with or has been one continually.
@@michaelcaffery5038 No but in all probability they did serve alcohol because according to Brehon Law every clan or tribal chieftain had to provide a hostelry free of charge for the use of travellers.The chieftain had to provide free food and drink and its highly unlikely and an alcoholic drink was not served most likely whiskey rather than beer originally.Its a stretch to call it a bar or a pub in the modern sense,but it was definitely a drinking house.Later on it changed to an alehouse and then what we would call a pub.
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Best and easiest way to differentiate between Bars and Pubs, the Americans use the term Bars in Ireland we use the term Pubs. Another way to look at it is the name Sesns Pub wouldn't appeal to tourists the same way as Seans Bar. As for food to me a pub is for drinking in.
We have historical buildings new range which is older than the pyramids our culture is epic
Pub means public house everyone is welcome including children and bars are adults only
Steve, there was a pub in my home town in England where a friend of mine took his girlfriend with him and the landlord ushered them into a back room, he asked if there was any lager and the landlord said yes I think so and went to the cellar and came back with an old bottle of Carlsberg covered in dust and was about to open it when my mate said no it's ok I'll have bitter. This was in the seventies.
I think the main difference between a bar and a pub is that a bar is a place where you take your own company with you or just go to drink and not socialise and a pub is where you go to meet people and find company there. An inn was more likely to serve food and offer accomodation for the traveller.
Ive been and theres a place that serves food right next door and you can even access it from the back door of seans bar. I think probably the main reason why seans bar doesnt serve food is because it is simply so old and they dont have enough space today to add an extension where they can put a kitchen in in order to make and serve food. Seans bar is pretty tiny
According to most of us Irish, a bar and a pub is the same thing, or one could say are you going to the "local" or are you going for a "pint", or a "drink" which means , are you going to the pub/bar, it's all the same!
No, pubs don't have to serve food in Ireland, a bar is the counter in a pub where you order your drink or sit at on a high stool.
. Places that serve food are known lately as gastro pubs!
a pub is the drinking place that serves the community and a place for social gathering for the people they have pool leagues and darts leagues not all public houses serve food
there is no wat that building is 1100 years old, maybr the ground it sits on, people were living in roundhouses in 900ad
Yeah, it's a place ya wanna look behind the walls for stuff lol. Be interesting to know what the oldest pub is, that has kept the same name.
This is so true...women were shunned for even going to the pub. So those who did were kept away from the men...
Tiny pubs can't serve food nowhere t cook it. It's a pub
I used to have pints there every Friday night ..good times in Seáns Bar.
Sheans arn't allowed to provite potîin until you'tr at least 6
There is a pub near me that was listed in the doomsday book from 1086
We have two kinds pubs, wet pub, drinks only no food. Wet dry sale both drink and food
The snug was separate with its own door, also they had the smoke bar , separate also, mainly Men used them .
this pub is in my home town and in my 19 years on this planet i never knew it was the oldest in the world i knew it was old but not that old 😅900 ad is crazy
Not all pubs sell food some just do snacks and a bar is the wooden structure were you get you drinks served its literally a massive piece of wood that the beer taps and drinks are served
Im my home town in braintree the uk we have pubs that blackbeard the pirate use to drink in.
A bar where you have drinks. A bar is also the desk in the pub where the bartender or landlord is behind.
Not all pubs serve food in ireland in bars but you will get food inthe pub lounge
PART OF THE BACK WALL WHICH WAS MADE OF WATTLE WAS CARBON DATED AND FOUND TO BE OVER A THOUSAND YEARS OLD, IT WASORIGINALLY AN INN AS IT WAS NEXT TO A FORDING STAGE TO CROSS THE RIVER
Drank plenty there in the eighties, the sawdust was definitely their 👍