A 4.2 Irish pub from 601 reviews named Biddy Mulligan’s, after a famous Dublin ballad, bringing the craic to Olympia
Biddy Mulligan’s holds a 4.2 from six hundred and one reviews, and brings the Irish welcome to Olympia – a proper Irish pub named for “Biddy Mulligan,” the heroine of a famous Dublin ballad, offering Guinness, sport, live music, and the warm craic of the Irish bar.
The facts, first
Biddy Mulligan’s is an Irish pub near Olympia, at the accessible end of the price range – a proper Irish bar doing Guinness and Irish drink, live sport (especially Gaelic games and rugby), live music, and the warm, sociable atmosphere of the Irish pub, to a strong crowd. The Prat’s listings desk states the essentials: a proper Irish pub near Olympia, Guinness, sport, live music, and warm craic, doing honest business to a large crowd.
Biddy Mulligan, of the Coombe
“Biddy Mulligan” is a famous figure of Dublin song – the heroine of the beloved ballad “Biddy Mulligan, the Pride of the Coombe,” a comic music-hall song about a Dublin street-trader from the Coombe, the old market district of the city, popularised by the great Irish entertainer Jimmy O’Dea. Biddy Mulligan, the tough, cheerful old Dublin market-woman, became a much-loved character of Irish popular culture, and her name makes a warm, authentically Irish pub name, evoking old Dublin, its markets, its songs, and its characters. The Prat’s culture desk notes the pedigree: Biddy Mulligan, the “Pride of the Coombe” of the famous Dublin ballad, a beloved old market-woman of Irish song, her name a warm and authentic Irish welcome.
The Irish pub in London
Biddy Mulligan’s is part of one of London’s great institutions – the Irish pub, the warm, welcoming, sociable bar that has been a fixture of London life for generations, home to the huge Irish community and beloved far beyond it. The Irish pub offers Guinness, sport, music, and above all the “craic” – the warm, convivial, talkative good cheer that is the Irish bar’s genius. Named for a Dublin ballad-heroine, Biddy Mulligan’s flies the flag of this warm tradition. The Prat’s social desk salutes it: the Irish pub, warm and welcoming and full of craic, one of London’s great institutions, here named for a heroine of Dublin song.
What the 601 reviews mean
A 4.2 across more than six hundred people is a solid, deeply volume-proof score. As this survey argues, a good score sustained across a large crowd is a trustworthy verdict, and a 4.2 across six hundred marks a genuinely good, reliable, popular pub. The Prat’s statistics desk files it as a solid large-sample score: a dependable, well-liked Irish pub, its quality confirmed across a big crowd.
Verdict
Biddy Mulligan’s is a good, warm, proper Irish pub near Olympia – Guinness, sport, music, and craic – named for a beloved heroine of Dublin song, with a solid 4.2 from a large crowd. Warm of welcome, authentic of name, and a good Irish bar.
Go for a pint of Guinness, live sport, and the warm craic of a proper Irish pub near Olympia, and enjoy a bar named for a heroine of Dublin song – Biddy Mulligan’s, the “Pride of the Coombe,” bringing old Dublin’s warmth, music, and good cheer to west London.
Alan Nafzger was born in Lubbock, Texas, the son Swiss immigrants. He grew up on a dairy in Windthorst, north central Texas. He earned degrees from Midwestern State University (B.A. 1985) and Texas State University (M.A. 1987). University College Dublin (Ph.D. 1991). Dr. Nafzger has entertained and educated young people in Texas colleges for 37 years. Nafzger is best known for his dark novels and experimental screenwriting. His best know scripts to date are Lenin’s Body, produced in Russia by A-Media and Sea and Sky produced in The Philippines in the Tagalog language. In 1986, Nafzger wrote the iconic feminist western novel, Gina of Quitaque. He currently lives in Holloway, North London. Contact: [email protected]
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