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Kells Irish Pub

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Kells Irish Pub

The restaurant's front entrance in 2010

Restaurant information
Established	1990 (1990)
Street address	112 Southwest 2nd Avenue
City	Portland
County	Multnomah
State	Oregon
Country	United States
Coordinates	45°31′18″N 122°40′20″W / 45.5217°N 122.6722°W / 45.5217; -122.6722
Website	kellsportland.com

Kells Irish Pub is a pub in Portland, Oregon, United States.

Description

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The restaurant is housed in the Glisan Building,^[1] in the southwest portion of the city's Old Town Chinatown neighborhood.

History

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Opened in 1990, the restaurant is owned and operated by Gerard and Lucille McAleese.^[2] Their son Garrett opened Kells Brew Pub (now Kells Brewery) in northwest Portland in 2012.^[3]

Since 1995, money affixed to the ceiling has been donated to charity.^[4]^[5] The restaurant also hosts an annual Kells Irish Festival,^[6] and hosted the first Irish Beer Festival in 2017.^[7]

References

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^ "Historic Glisan Building for sale in downtown Portland". KATU. 2020-06-25. Archived from the original on 2020-07-06. Retrieved 2020-08-23.

^ "How Kells Irish Pub feeds people in Wilsonville". KOIN.com. 2020-04-22. Archived from the original on 2020-06-28. Retrieved 2020-08-23.

^ Meunier, Andre (2019-08-28). "Kells, once just a famous Irish pub, now a flourishing beer maker: Portland Breweries Series". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2020-08-23.

^ "Annual ceiling sweep at Kells Irish Pub raises money for children in need". KPTV.com. Archived from the original on 2020-06-27. Retrieved 2020-08-23.

^ "$7,000 in cash scraped from Kells Irish Pub ceiling for a good cause". KATU. 2016-02-23. Archived from the original on 2020-06-28. Retrieved 2020-08-23.

^ Russell, Michael (2013-03-15). "Kells Irish Festival builds on a base of history in Portland". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2020-06-28. Retrieved 2020-08-23.

^ Anderson, Jennifer (2017-03-08). "Kells hosts first Irish Beer Festival". Portland Tribune. Archived from the original on 2020-06-28. Retrieved 2022-02-19.