One of Galway city's most prominent locations with prestigious "1 Eyre Square"
address, this hotel and bar was run by the Richardson family between 1955 and
the start of July 2023, when they decided to retire and closed the pub.
It featured a large downstairs bar, a second bar and attached meeting room
upstairs which in later years served as a meeting room for a wide range of
causes (including many anti-establishment groups), the smallest off-license in
the city, and accommodation on the upper floor.
With a great view over Kennedy Park and Eyre Squire, the building sported many
different colour schemes over the years, always including the motto Nil Satis
Nili Optimum ("Nothing but the best is good enough").
It fitted symbolically into Eyre Square's bar and hotel offerings, with the
very stylish and conservative Hardiman in the south end, the large and popular
Skeffington Arms in the west side - and Richardsons' diagonally and
metaphorically on the opposite side of the square.
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| Richardson's Pub, April 2023 |
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| "Men with Tied Hair" |