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Friels Bar & Restaurant

5th Generation Pub with Historic Soup Kitchen & Original Famine Pot Est 1837

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Whats on Draught?

We have many beers and ciders available, those on draught include;

Guinness
Tennants
Harp
Heverlee
Carlsberg
Rockshore Irish Larger
Orchard Thieves

About Friels Historic Bar & Restaurant

Friels Bar and Restaurant is currently run by the fifth generation of the Friel family. The bar has been in the family name for over one hundred years. In the public bar, you will get a real feel of the old world, with pictures and memorabilia of bygone times. Our roaring log fire in winter makes Friels a cosy place to spend an evening.

2-4 Kilrea Rd, Swatragh, BT46 5QF

Bookings: 028 7940 1206

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🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻 It all kicks off tonight with a table quiz starting at 9pm! 💡 ✏️ For all the details of what’s on this weekend, check out our markets highlight on instagram 🎄🎅🏻 . . . #christmas #friels #frielsswatragh #pubquiz #lightsswitchon #whatsonni

Christmas Céilí Sunday 🌟🎄❤️ This Sunday join us for a day of celebrating Irish culture ☘️ Irish dancing, trad session & more 💚 . . . . #tradsessuin #tradtionalirishmusic #tradgroup #irishculture #swatragh #friels #frielsbar #christmas

CHRISTMAS MARKET & LIGHTS SWITCH ON THIS SATURDAY 4PM- 9PM Who’s excited?? 🌟🎄 For full details, check our Christmas market highlight 📄❤️ . . . . #christmasmarket #lightsswitchon #swatragh #christmaslights #carolsinging #mulledwine

Christmas Quiz! 🎅🏻 💡 This Friday at 9pm in aid of St John’s Primary School 🎄🌟 . . . #frielsmarkets #christmasfriels #pubquiz #pubquizswatragh #christmasquiz

Do you love a Sunday Club as much as we do here in Friels?! 🍷🍺🍷🍺🍷🍺 Well you are in luck! EVERY SUNDAY in November we have Live Music from Decky O'Kane🎶 See you there! 👋 7pm #friels #livemusic #localtalent #swatragh

Our 6th Annual Christmas Market is approaching fast!! 🎅🎄 Dont forget to join us from the 15th-17th November. A weekend not to be missed!!! #friels #christmasmarket

Its that time🕒 Come down and join us!! Early Bird Menu now available at Friels Bar and Restaurant 🍽️😁 2 Courses £12 3 Courses £15 3pm - 7pm . . . #friels #frielsbarandrestaurant #swatragh

National Poetry Day 🖊 📚 . A tribute to Mick McAtamney . Born in the townland of Macknagh halfway between Swatragh and Maghera, judging by one of his earliest verses, he must have opened his eyes to a wintry scene. . I was born on a stormy morning in eighteen-sixty-two, . The snow was flying and I was crying, . There wasn’t much else that I could do. . Mick grew up in post-famine Ireland where the ravages of enforced emigration cast a long shadow over the land. . He attended Killyleagh School and worked on local farms. At the age of eighteen, he left for Scotland and the industrial heartland of Clydeside to work in the shipyards. He wasn’t happy and returned to Swatragh after a short time. . . In 1885 he headed for America and the land of opportunity. . He often said, “I was in every State in America except the State of GRACE! . “I put a penny on a thumb-nail, And tossed it up to see, . If I was going to Pittsburg, Or Memphis, Tennessee . .It came down ahead for Pittsburgh, I retrieved it from the snow, . So I took the Kitty-Stockdale, Up the Ohio. . The Kitty Stockdale. . . His wanderings took him to 31 states and he had a fondness for the forests and lakes of Minnesota and Michigan. . In 1929, America’s economic roller-coaster jumped the rails and the New York stock market collapsed. Mick left America and returned home to south Derry in 1932 where he set up home in Moneysharvin. . It is often difficult to unravel fact from fiction in recounting McAtamneys adventures in America. . Over the next few years, his poems appeared in the local press. . “The smiddys hammer said it upon the anvil clear, . And Quintins Pat relayed it and sent it in the air ; . McQuillan took his hammer, he smiled “I think” says he . “If they want some anvil grammar let them harken here to me.” . Donnelly’s Mill. . The full poem is located beside the fireplace in our back room. . . When Mick came home from America his only possession was his own hand-carved stick which is now hanging up behind Friels Bar. This stick was left for Jonny’s Friels wife as she always admired it when he frequented the bar. #friels #frielsbar #irishpoetry #nationalpoetryday #irishliterature #irishpoet

A little taster of what live music we have on this weekend!! 😁 🎶 🍻 🍷 . . . . #friels #frielsbar #livemusic #livemusicvenue #swatragh

I love you a latte 🥰 ☕️ . . . . #coffee #latte #mondaymotivation #mondaymood #friels #frielsbar #swatragh #takeoutcoffee

Latte to go! Bring your reusable coffee cup with you ♻️ 🌍 💚 ☕️ . . . . . #coffee #javarepublic #keepcup #friels #frielsbar #swatragh

The fantastic Tony Kearney playing in the front bar tonight 🎶 . . . #sundaysessions #friels #frielsbar #swatragh #livemusic #irishpub