Dáil Éireann bonds
Certificates from the loan the First Dáil floated in 1919–1921 to fund Ireland’s independence, sold at home and across Irish America.
Real Irish history
Irish History Artefacts Inside The Síbín
Three genuine pieces of the past, and a wall of memorabilia, inside a pub you can rent.
Not a theme pub. The real thing.
The Irish history artefacts inside The Síbín are three genuine pieces of the Irish past: Dáil Éireann bonds from the loan that funded the independence movement in 1919–1921, a signature of Daniel O’Connell, and a newspaper of the Irish Volunteers from 1916. Around them hangs a wall of memorabilia — portraits, prints and ephemera telling the story of Ireland and America. All of it travels with the pub to your event.
Most “Irish pubs” decorate with reproductions bought by the crate. We went the other way. The Síbín is a towed Victorian pub that seats about sixteen, with a real snug, and the things on its walls are the things an Irish pub would actually have accumulated over a hundred years — only we had to find them ourselves.
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Genuine Three pieces
What hangs on the walls
A Daniel O’Connell signature
The hand of The Liberator — the man who won Catholic Emancipation in 1829 and led the Repeal movement with its monster meetings.
A 1916 Irish Volunteer newspaper
An issue of the weekly paper of the Irish Volunteers, which ran from 1914 until the Easter Rising of April 1916.
The snug wall And a wall of memorabilia
Around the three artefacts is the rest of the collection: portraits of the people who shaped modern Ireland, prints, and the kind of ephemera that ends up on a pub wall over a century and is never taken down. Much of it is about the traffic between Ireland and America — the emigrants, the money sent home, the ideas and the trouble that crossed the Atlantic in both directions.
The best place to read it is from the snug, pint in hand, with a Dubliner behind the bar to fill in the gaps. If you would like to know what a síbín is in the first place, we have written that up too.
History, delivered
The only pub rental we know of where the décor has its own footnotes.— and a bartender from Dublin to read them to you
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Seeing them
The pub comes to you
There are no premises to visit — The Síbín is based in Plymouth, MA and spends its working life on the South Shore, Cape Cod, Greater Boston and across New England, towed to whoever has rented it. So the way to see the artefacts is to book the pub, or to ask us whether it is being set up anywhere near you. The pub page has the rates, capacity and what is included.
FAQ
Questions about the artefacts
Can guests handle the artefacts?
They hang framed on the walls of the pub and that is where they stay for the night. Guests are welcome to lean in, read and photograph them, and our bartenders are happy to talk through what each one is. If you have a particular reason to look more closely, ask us when you book and we will tell you what is possible.
Are the artefacts real?
Yes. The Dáil Éireann bonds, the Daniel O’Connell signature and the 1916 Irish Volunteer newspaper are genuine period pieces, not reproductions. We are documenting the provenance of each one — where it came from and how it reached the pub — and will publish that on the individual pages as it is confirmed.
Can I see the artefacts without renting the pub?
Not as a rule — The Síbín has no premises and no opening hours. It is a towed Victorian pub that lives on a trailer between events, so the only time it is open is when someone has rented it. If you are curious, get in touch; if the pub is being set up nearby we may be able to arrange a look.
Why does a mobile pub carry real Irish history?
Because the pub is meant to feel like one you would walk into in Ireland, and those pubs are full of the past: a framed letter here, a yellowed newspaper there, portraits of the people who made the country. The walls of The Síbín tell the story of the long bond between Ireland and America, which is where most of our guests’ families come into it. It gives people something to talk about at the bar, which is the point of a bar.
See them for yourself
Rent the pub with the history on its walls
Tell us the date and where you are. The Síbín arrives with its bar, its snug and a century of Irish history already hung.