Claddagh Irish Pub approved for Leawood
Leawood City Council met Monday and approved a preliminary plan for a Claddagh Irish Pub at the Cornerstone development, at 135th Street and Nall Avenue.
The developer, DesignPlan, plans to build the restaurant and pub at the southeast corner of the Cornerstone.
Once upon a time in England, Irish pubs were places that naturally evolved from previous generations of immigrants running pubs, or they were really English pubs where new waves of immigrants just went for a pint.
And then somebody thought it would be great to build fake Irish pubs all over England, which meant I spent years explaining that no, Irish pubs in Ireland weren’t really like that.
Actually I only spent about three years doing that because by then Ireland started to import into Ireland the very fake pubs it had exported, and instantly everything was authentic the world over. Or nothing was.
Suddenly you really did see bicycles in pub windows, and you were using wooden barrels as tables as you stood in the sawdust, inside your fake Georgian building.
And England lost a lot of great English pubs. I felt for them, just like I felt when my favourite Dublin pub, after games in Croke Park, was gutted, quadrupled in size, and converted into an American saloon bar. Just like the real thing they said.
Still, who cares about Leawood?
See Also:
• Claddagh Irish Pub to Open in 2007
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