Twins
Celebrate 300th Birthday
Kilkenny People
04/04/03
Twins will tonight (Wednesday) celebrate
300 glorious years.
A group from San Diego, California, will join with Kilkenny revelers to mark
the 300th anniversary of Tynan’s Bar, John’s Bridge, Kilkenny.
Tynan’s Bridge House Bar first opened for business in March 1703.
It was founded by the Darcy family, and it remained in the ownership of that
family until 1916, when it was sold to the Tynan family.
When Michael Tynan retired from the business about four years ago, the pub was
bought by James Cody, who mother was a Kenny from Palmerstown, Kilkenny, and
who is a direct descendant of the original owners.
As Ireland emerged from the famine years, the pub was
“modernized” in 1862. It seems to have
changed very little since then!
About three years ago a group of American businessmen were brought on a tour
of Ireland by the Guinness pub development unit.
One of the visitors, Samme Ladckie from San Diego, liked Tynan’s so much
that he copied the interior and used it as part of a new pub which he opened
in San Diego in March 2001.
A “twinning” of the two pubs was held in Kilkenny in September 2001
and in San Diego in March of 2002.
Tonight’s festivities begin at 7:30pm and will no doubt continue for a
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Tynan's
300th celebrations...Mayor Betty Manning cuts the cake
to celebrate Tynan's 300 years in business with Cait and
James Coady (right), proprietors and Teresa and Breda Coady
(James's mother and sister) and Michael Keogh, organizer.
The pub opened for business on March 2, 1703 and was in
the Darcy family until 1916 when it was bought by the Tynan's.
Teresa Coady (James's mother) is related to the Darcy's
through marriage and James bought the bar in November 1998.
Tynans Visit...Thomas Tynan and his daughter from Florida,
USA, who have traced their roots back to an ancesro who
left from Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny, in 1850 sign the visitors'
book when they were received in the Mayor's Parlor when
they visited Kilkenny. Included are Mary Flood, Rothe House;
James Cody, Tynan's Bridge House Bar proprietor and Mayor
Betty Manning. Tynan's Bar are celebrating their 300th
anniversary in business this week.
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