The Tipperary - Acrylic on Canvas - 24” x 20”
One of the earliest Irish pubs in London, The Tipperary at 66 Fleet Street was known for most of its existence as The Boar's Head. The Boar's Head dates back to at least 1443, when "Le Bory's Head" came under the same grant to the Carmelite Friars as the Bolt-in-Tun next door which was a coaching inn. The Boar's Head was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 but rebuilt in 1668. The location has carried the Tipperary name from at least 1950 and known before that for a short time as Mooney's Irish House or just Irish House.