Kerry Pub and Restaurant, Killarney Traditional Irish Pub - Molly Darcy's Traditional Irish Pub & Restaurant

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The Award Winning Molly Darcy's Traditional Irish Pub & Restaurant is the perfect location for a taste of Kerry. Where wooden floors, stonewalls, beamed ceilings, open fires and live Irish entertainment create a warm and friendly welcome. You can even join the Molly's Mug club and take home a souvenir of a Muckross Pottery Mug.

Black & White Kerry pub of the year 9 consecutive years

2003 Black & White Pub of the Year
2003 Traditional Irish Music Pub of the Year
2003 Dining Pub of the Year
2002 Black & White Pub of the Year
2001 RAC Award for Dining Excellence
2001 AA Award for Culinary Excellence

Dining is of the traditional Irish Fayre and we offer such dishes as:

Traditional Seafood Chowder
Irish Stew
Bacon & Cabbage
Mollys Apple Tart and Cream
Mollys Bread & Butter pudding

For Groups

We offer traditional Irish Music.
'The Irish Whiskey Experience' Whiskey Tastings where your guests can sample and learn about the history of Irish Whiskey.
Upon request Traditional Irish Dancers who will demonstrate the jigs and reels and encourage audience participation.
Traditional Irish Fayre enjoy traditional Irish home cooked food. Bacon & Cabbage, Boxty, Homemade Irish Stew and lots more.
Upon request enjoy the Tales of Olde Ireland with a local Seanachai (story teller).

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How the bar was named

When the Muckross Hotel was purchased by Bill Cullen and Jackie Lavin in 1990, this pub/restaurant was renovated and extended. It was renamed 'Molly Darcys' in memory of Bill's maternal grandmother.

Molly Darcy was a special woman. Special in that she lived for almost a century. She lived and associated with people who survived the Famine years 1845-51.

She stood outside the smouldering ruins of the GPO after the Easter Rising of 1916 with Bill's mother a baby in her arms.

Molly coped with the hardships and deprivation of the Troubles, Black and Tans and the Irish Civil War.

She lost her husband (Robert 'Sheriff' Darcy) in his prime and supported her family in the tough thirties, and through the Second World War by selling fish and fruit from a barrow in Dublin's Fair City. This was a time of extreme poverty when a mother's proudest boast was that her children were never barefoot.

Molly passed away in February 1991 just two months short of her 100th birthday. Five generations of Darcy's were at her funeral with over 100 direct descendants present. Molly didn't leave a will of money or riches, but passed on a legacy of immeasurable wealth. She left her family a heritage of love, kindness and indomitable spirit, and the strength and determination to overcome life's adversities.

Molly had lots of wise sayings and these were her favourites.

'If God is with you, it doesn't matter who's against you'
'If you can't do a man a good turn never do him a bad one'
'Smile, I met a man today who didn't have a smile so I gave him one'

Muckross Park Hotel & Cloisters Spa in Killarney, Ireland