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Some Ideas for Pub Names Aherne's Donohue Lynch Fitzpatrick's Sheridan's Altamont Gardens Doyle's M.J. Byrne's Skibbereen Ambrose Dromahair M. O'Brien Slasher O'Reilly Magillicuddy's Duckett's Grove MacCarthy Mór Slattery's An Casur Duffy's MacDonagh's Slievenamon An Cruiscín Lán Dunphy's MacCarthy's Smuggler's Coast An Currach Dún na nór Macgillycuddy's St. Brendan's Anderson Durty Nellie's Reeks St. Patrick's Purgatory Auld Dubliner Dwyer's Macroom Inn Stag's Head Baggott Inn Dysert O'Dea MacSorley's Sweet Rosie O'Grady Ballybunnion Eyre Square Madden's T. Nolan's Ballygoan Fahy's Madigan's Tara's Hall Barney Brannigan's Fallon's Maguire's Templogue Inn Barry's Farrell's Maguire's Lunchbox The Bailey Béal Bocht Farrelly's Mahon's The Bankers Beenbawn Strand Feehan Mahony's The Banshee Beirne's Fields of Athenry Malones' The Bishop's Collar Biddy Mulligan's Finan's Marble City Bar The Black Raven Billy Kelly Finn McCool's Martin B. Slattery The Blackwater Black Velvet Band Finnegan's Mary Kate's The Bodhrán Bleeding Horse Flann O'Brien's Master McGrath The Borstal Boy Boar's Head Flynn's McDaid's The Brazen Head Bohan's Fogarty's McNamara's Band The Brown Bull Brady's Foggy Dew Merchant's Museum The Burren Branagan's Foley's Merchant's Quay The Cardy Marina Brendan the Four Green Fields Michael Davitt's The Claddagh House Navigator Gaffney's Mitchell's The Cliffs of Moher Brennan's Gallagher's Mitchelstown Cave The Clonakilty Brian Ború Galley Head Moll's Gap The Coachman's Briody's Gap of Dungloe Molloy's The Coffin Ship Broderick's George Berkeley Molly Bloom's The Coopers Brogan's George Bernard Molly Malone's The Coughing Sheep Bruree Mill Shaw Moloney's The Crane Buck Whaley's Gerard Manley Monaghan's The Dawson Lounge Buckley's Hopkins Mooney's The Druid's Chair Bunratty Castle Gilroy's Morrissey's Bar The Dunes Burke's Glancy's Mountcashel The Fianna Busker's Holiday Gleeson's Muckross Fairy The Fields of Athenry Butler's Glen of Aherlow Muckross House The Finglass Inn Byrne's Grace O'Malley's Mulally The Fishing Lodge Caffrey's Gráinne Mhaoil Muldoon's The Flowing Tide Cahalane's Grogan's Mullane's The Full Jug Caheny's Hannigan's Hooley Mulligan's The Galway Hooker Cahill's Hannighan's Mullingar's The Glenside Callaghan's Hanrahan's Nicholas Blake The Goalpost Captain Boycott's Healy's Nolan's The Goblet Carolan's Heights of Connor O'Boyle's The Golden Vale Carroll's Pass O'Brien's The Granary Cartlan's Hennelly's O'Brien's Bridge The Ha'penny Bridge Cassidy's Hennessy's O'Casey's The Harp Castlemayr Hickey's O'Connell's The High Cross Caulfield's Hienchy's O'Connor's The Hill of Tara Cis Madden's Hogan's O'Dea's Hermitage The Hogan Clancy's Horan's O'Donohue's The Horse and Tram Clare Glens Horseface O'Toole's O'Donovan's The Hurler's Cleary's Houlihan's O'Driscoll The Jig & Reel Clery's Clock Hourigan's O'Dwyer's The Keg Cliffs of Moher Hugh O'Neill's O'Flaherty's The Leinster Ridge Clifton Court Hyne's O'Grady's The Liffey Inn Clohessy's Isle of Inisfree O'Keefe's The Links of Rosslare Clontarf Castle J. Fitzgerald's O'Mahoney's The Maigue Poets Coady's J. Kennedy's O'Neill's The Mean Fiddler Cobh Harbour J. O'Keeffe O'Rahilly's The Mizen Head Connemara Ponies J.J. Smith's O'Reilly's The Moon & Sixpence Connaught Counties James Connolly Old Head of Kinsale The Mt. Brandon Connolly's Folly James Griffin's Oliver Goldsmith The Peatbog Conroy's James Joyce Orby's Derby The Penny Black Conway's James MacDonnell Oscar Wilde The Playwright Cooley Peninsula Joe O'Neill's P. Cullen's The Rakes of Mallow Cooney's John Delaney's Paddy Flaherty's The Red Hand of Corcoran's John Gibney & Son Padraic O'Conaire's Cuchulainn Corrigan's John Jameson & Padraig Pearse The Rock of Cashel Coughlan's Sons Parnell's The Slaney County Carlow John Kavanagh's Peerless Arkle The Slea Head County Clare John McCabe's Peggy O'Neill's The Sliothar Courtney John Mulligan's Peig's The Step Inn Coyne John Power & Sons Phelan Grubhaí The Wandering Heifer Crag Cave John Shaw Piper's Jig The Wild Rover Cregan's Johnny Fox's Plough and the Stars The Windy Gap Croagh Patrick Johnathon Swift Poitín Stil The Wolfhound Cross of Ages Jug of Punch Powers Thomas Beckett Crowley's Kanturk Castle Pride of Tralee Thomas More Culligan's Kate Kearney's Quigley's Thomas Wm. Croke Cullinan's Cottage Quilan's Thurles Cummin's Kavanagh's Quinn's Timoney Standing Stones Cunningham's Keane's Railway House Tipperary Town Curran's Kehoe's Rare Oul Times Tom Mayes Daly's Kelehan's Ring of Kerry Toner's Dame Alice Kelleher's Riordan's Tralee Bay Dame Tavern Kennedy's River Blackwater Trim Castle Danaher's Kenny's Robert Madgett Tullow Daniel O'Connell Kerry Hills Roche's Tír na nóg Danny Boy Kerrymen Rock of Cashel Under the Hammer Davy Byrne's Kevin Barry Rody Boland's Vanessa's Grove Delaney's Kieran's Rose of Tralee Vaughan's Delaney's Donkey Kilcullen's Bath Róisín O'Hare's W.B. Yeat's Dempsey's House Rushy Glen Waltzing Matilda Devil's Punch Bowl Kildare Bar Ryan's Waterford's Tap Dicey Reilly's Kilkenny Castle Ryan's Daughter Waxie's Dargle Dingle Bay Kilkenny Cats Samuel Beckett Wexford Inn Dingle Dolphin Killaloe Seamus Murphy Whelan's Doheny & Nesbitt's Killarney Sean Kelly Whiskey in the Jar Dolan's Killeagh Pub Sean O'Casey's White Strand Dollymount House Kilmallock Priory Seanchaí Wild Colonial Boy Donal O'Flaherty's Kinsella's Shebeen Wm. Crotty Donegan's Kirwan's Sheehan's Donleavy's Lafferty's Sheedy's Donnybrook Fair Leavy's Lenehan's Lincoln's Inn Lough Derg Lough Gur .
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