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English visitors

We will be having English visitors to stay shortly and one of them would like to visit "a typical Irish" pub ;)
Can anyone suggest a pub or any other establishment that offers fiddle de dee type music, preferably, within the Bangor area?

TIA
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  • leftieM
    leftieM Posts: 2,181 Forumite
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    I took my sis to the Duke of York in Belfast the last time she visited. They had Irish music on a Sunday evening and the place was full. They had a Yeats poem on the stairs on the way up. It was great!
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  • oldhand
    oldhand Posts: 3,749 Forumite
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    Fiddlers green in portaferry.....
  • lazer
    lazer Posts: 3,402 Forumite
    Fibber McGees (Back part of Robinsons) in Belfast
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  • Mistral001
    Mistral001 Posts: 5,444 Forumite
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    Crosskeys, in County Antrim.
  • Belair wrote: »
    We will be having English visitors to stay shortly and one of them would like to visit "a typical Irish" pub ;)

    Would that be the type of old country "Irish" pub where when you walk into the place, it falls silent and everyone stares at you like you have three heads...... "your not from these parts..... are you !!!" the barman will then say!! :rotfl:
  • ballyblack
    ballyblack Posts: 5,174 Forumite
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    Oldest pub in Ireland, 'Grace Neills' D'dee Saturday night.
    Music but might not be fiddly-dee?
  • Belair
    Belair Posts: 394 Forumite
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    Would that be the type of old country "Irish" pub where when you walk into the place, it falls silent and everyone stares at you like you have three heads...... "your not from these parts..... are you !!!" the barman will then say!! :rotfl:

    Yes! With everyone wearing donkey jackets and there's a pig in the kitchen. :rotfl:
  • GlynD
    GlynD Posts: 10,883 Forumite
    ballyblack wrote: »
    Oldest pub in Ireland, 'Grace Neills' D'dee Saturday night.
    Music but might not be fiddly-dee?

    I thought Lizzie Drakes at the Maze was the oldest pub in Ireland? Am I wrong?
  • GlynD
    GlynD Posts: 10,883 Forumite
    GlynD wrote: »
    I thought Lizzie Drakes at the Maze was the oldest pub in Ireland? Am I wrong?

    I'll answer my own question as the result of a quick google. It seems about 10 pubs all claim the title with one in Dublin claiming to be a pub since 1158. Hard to say who's right - but how many of them put on good diddeydee music?
  • Artytarty
    Artytarty Posts: 2,642 Forumite
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    Thursday evenings in the Lisbarnet house just outside Comber has good trad Irish music . It starts around 9pm.
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