Longstreet's Irish Pub 
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About Us
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We're one of the oldest pubs in downtown Wilmington, dating back to the days of Orton Hotel, and Longstreet's was the barber shop!
Come in for all the stories about how Tom Berenger once owned the place, how we've got a resident ghost, and -- lest we forget -- the largest urinal this side of the mason-dixon line!
We look forward to serving you.
General Longstreet fought the Irish Brigade in the Civil War! So why are we called Longstreet's Irish Pub? Well...
Dan Sickles, the former commander of the Federal corps that opposed Old Pete in the Peach Orchard and Wheatfield on the second day at Gettysburg and who had his leg shot off during that battle, visited Atlanta in 1892. He was there to attend the banquet of the Irish Societies on St. Patrick's Day. Upon arrival, he received a call from James Longstreet, who had gone to Atlanta to welcome his old adversary to his state. Sickles, who wrote of the incident in the introduction of Helen's Longstreet's book about her husband, said "We entered the hall arm in arm, about nine o'clock in the evening, and were received by some three hundred gentlemen, with the wildest and loudest 'rebel yell' I had ever heard." Sickles and Longstreet would end the evening together wandering through the streets of Atlanta, old enemies now friends.
We're one of the oldest pubs in downtown Wilmington, dating back to the days of Orton Hotel, and Longstreet's was the barber shop!
Come in for all the stories about how Tom Berenger once owned the place, how we've got a resident ghost, and -- lest we forget -- the largest urinal this side of the mason-dixon line!
We look forward to serving you.
General Longstreet fought the Irish Brigade in the Civil War! So why are we called Longstreet's Irish Pub? Well...
Dan Sickles, the former commander of the Federal corps that opposed Old Pete in the Peach Orchard and Wheatfield on the second day at Gettysburg and who had his leg shot off during that battle, visited Atlanta in 1892. He was there to attend the banquet of the Irish Societies on St. Patrick's Day. Upon arrival, he received a call from James Longstreet, who had gone to Atlanta to welcome his old adversary to his state. Sickles, who wrote of the incident in the introduction of Helen's Longstreet's book about her husband, said "We entered the hall arm in arm, about nine o'clock in the evening, and were received by some three hundred gentlemen, with the wildest and loudest 'rebel yell' I had ever heard." Sickles and Longstreet would end the evening together wandering through the streets of Atlanta, old enemies now friends.
We're located at 135 N. Front St., in Historic Downtown Wilmington, NC. We're adjacent to the Orton Pool Room and Fat Tony's Italian Pub.
We serve all kinds of good tasty adult beverages!
Our big party of the year -- you guessed it -- St. Patrick's Day!
We serve all kinds of good tasty adult beverages!
Our big party of the year -- you guessed it -- St. Patrick's Day!
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