Pubs, Bars, Taverns and Hotels in County Limerick, Ireland

Nancy Blake's pub, Denmark Street, Limerick

Limerick's great gift to the bar is Irish coffee. As the story goes, on a stormy night in 1943 a transatlantic flight turned back to the flying-boat base at Foynes, and the chef Joe Sheridan warmed the chilled passengers with coffee, whiskey, sugar and cream. Asked if it was Brazilian coffee, he said it was Irish. A visiting journalist later took the recipe to San Francisco. Limerick city has its literary pub too: in Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt drinks his first pint at South's the night before he turns sixteen.