Stanley’s Bar, Brooklyn, New York
Oh.
Anon writes:
I was drinking at Old Stanley’s Bar in Brooklyn, NY, with friends when someone in my group pointed out this sign (above) that was displayed behind the bar.
A debate ensued with another Irish group who were there and I was told that this was the ‘norm’ in NY bars. I spent two Summers living in NY and never saw anything quite like it.
I’d like to hear other Irish people’s opinion on this.
(btw this was not an Irish bar)
Anyone?
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I’ve been out of the country too. I’ve seen signs. And anybody that tells you different is talking rubbish.
:)
Is this not a piece of ‘memorabilia’ that you see stuck up in pubs (maybe from years ago) as opposed to an actual customer notice sign?
More upset about the ‘F*ck Moz’ sticker by the way. MOZ 4 EVA!
Yup. That’s how I would’ve read it. Everyone LOVES the Irish, sure.
Kevin,I’m with you, Moz 4 Eva , sacrelige that anybody could say fupp moz
Moz knows what he did.
I would thought we were past the point at which working in a bar was the height of our professional ambitions.
It’s clearly just tat for the bar, its a joke. Also loads of bar workers are irish in NYC
Who’s arranging a protest for the offended outside the American Embassy this evening.
I’m just going to watch a load of American movies then criticise the crap out of them online
think they have enough problems ..starting with their Commander in Chief
Seriously? It’s for lols!
That’ll be the new Irish stuff, like St Patty’s Day or White Irish Slaves pre-dating the other slaves stuff that are doing the rounds.
St Patty’s Day makes me wince
st sausage day
Is there a statue I could be pulling down over this?
Pull down the bar!!!
Pave paradise, put up a parking lot.
You could start with the Twin Towers monument in Donadea Forest Park…. That’d get their attention….
This is memorabilia, clearly. But it was the case in the past, when 1000s of Irish arrives into NY each year throughout the early – mid 1900s.
‘No blacks, no dogs, no Irish’ was not just a UK agenda. The states had a love hate relationship with us. They loved work we did (especially in construction), but hated to have us work with them.
You’re talking poop, Owen.
Well that’s a first so.
This (weirdly) made me think of The Sisters Brothers. Read it if you get a chance. I enjoyed the HECK out of that book.
A poor man’s Kevin Barry
I will. My supply of books is running low at the moment.
You know what’s good if you haven’t read it already? After The Fall by Noah’s Hawley.
noted. we should have a book recommendation thread
yep like a regular Monday book club
I’m in !
Ok top 5 ( because lists)
Shantaram, Gregory Roberts
The God of small things, Arundhati Roy
The bone people, Karime Hulme
Confessions of a sociopath, M.E Thomas
The Dice man, George Cockcroft
Keri not Karime,
Lists please !
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
The Housekeeper + the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Persuasion by Jane Austen
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
thanks milly
I’ll throw in a few!
best book I read this year : The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd
most impressive book : East of Eden
most interesting : Wild Swans
best Irish : The Star of the Sea
most fantastic : Shadow of the Wind
currently reading : Saigon. its very good
digging the categories
I would love to be in a book club that met in a pub every couple of weeks!
with a snug and an open fire
and an old fella who throws in now and again
Good list Janet, thanks!
I just finished The Burning Of Bridget Cleary By Angela Bourke and it was really good, particularly on the folklore aspect, and I’ve started The Force by Don Winslow, tough hard-boiled NY cop novel written in addictive intense rhythmic prose.
Thanks I’ll check it out ! Always on the look out for a good read
Books in English soooo expensive
haven’t read many cop novels, I’ll give that a go
The Bone People led to me scoring with a guy one night. He was from New Zealand and he nearly had a heart attack that I knew about Keri Hulme. So if for no other reason than that, it’s worth a read. Also it’s fantastic.
Shantaram? Shataram. I hated it. Like White Tiger, or as I like to call it “Shite Tiger”
I’m reading The Essex Serpent at the moment. So far, so super.
I have fallen in love for less valid reasons than a great book list !
men who can discuss a good book are hot as balls
yeah White tiger was crap
Overhyped muck
The new integrated online ordering service for the Irish libraries is a wonder of the modern world.
I read Wild Swans earlier this year. Powerful book.
Top 5?
Oooooo.
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry.
Darkmans by Nicola Barker
Ermmmmmmmmm
Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth
I loved Magician, Silverthorn and whatsit the third one by Raymond E Feist when I was younger. Got me into fantasy bukes.
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Best list changes all the time. I think Sebastian Barry came into his own with the new one, Bro Barnabas. I used to think he was a wonderful writer but a brutal storyteller. The new one blasts that theory out of the water.
Loved Feist as a teenager. Have you read NK Jermsin’s Broken World books? Brilliant modern epic fantasy.
Jemisin.
I have not. I’ll look into them. Thanks! I love a good fantasy book after ploughing through some worthy fiction.
Ahhhhhhh – I didn’t say Sebastian Barry. He’s related in some way to Joe Duffy, I’d wager.
(#1 – A Hero of Our Time, Lermontov)
KEVIN Barry. Oh right. Dunno about him.
Honestly, most extraordinary Irish writer in the last 50 years
youtube.com/watch?v=sylp8EVkxrU
Start with Dark Lies the Island
I know why I didn’t buy any of his books. His name. He sounds dopey. It is with this cavalier attitude that I choose books to read.
Short stories? Interesting. I’ll give them a whirl. Dammit: I was in Hodges Figgis yesterday lunchtime. Why didn’t you tell me yesterday morning? Speaking of dopes.
I love City of Bohane
I think it could make a great movie.
Couple of novels too – City of Bohane and Beatlebone. I was a teeny bit disappointed with Beatlebone. But he’s the real thing. First contemporary writer I’ve been genuinely excited about in ages. I used to keep an eye for his readings and go along but then he started recognising me, and that made us both a bit uncomfortable.
off to the book shop tomorrow to treat myself now with those recommendations , excited now
nice work !
I think I’ve got City of Bohane under a pile somewhere.
loved A fine balance !
yes top 5s defo change all the time
like every Monday ?! ;)
The Crow Road by Iain Banks is a favourite of mine. Funny, sad, slightly gothic family saga with a sly mystery at the heart of it. One of the best opening lines, too.
I went through a phase of reading every single one of his books. I think I watched The Crow Road. Did I? Was it televised or am I imagining it? Hmm. Lemme google. Och aye, I did!
I loved Whit. Such a pity he passed away so young.
The adaptation was excellent and yeah I loved Whit too. I worked in a bookshop when The Business came out. Not his best but he came and did a reading in the shop of the first chapter and it was hysterically funny. Gone too soon.
“The Bible” – that was a good one
anyone read that?
at least twice
know thy enemy
We are predestined by God to go to either heaven or hell. None of our thoughts, words, or actions can affect the final outcome. 1:4-5, 11
the brand of crazy I grew up with
How have you got on since? What do you reckon the final outcome will be for you Janet?
getting on with being as kind as I can
but when it’s all over I reckon that’s it
done and dusted
Yup, read it. My folks couldn’t afford the door-to-door suite of encyclopaedias, so read what was in the gaff. Got a lot of geography knowledge and animal husbandry out of it, that’s about all.
How does it end?
Turn out Moz was the killer all along.
Four horses broke free and everyone lost it. Bit of a Hemingway wrap-up.
a lot of teeth knashing and wailing
Yes I believed that featured in the book too Janet.