Kelly's Cellars occupies a vaulted, low-ceilinged building on Bank Street built in 1720, making it one of Belfast's oldest surviving pubs. Henry Joy McCracken and the Society of United Irishmen are recorded as meeting here while planning the 1798 Rising, a history marked by an Ulster History Circle blue plaque unveiled in 2007. The single bar retains an elbow-worn counter, stone flags and decades of accumulated bric-a-brac, and serves traditional pub food alongside cask ales and regular traditional Irish music sessions. Lily Mulholland and Martin O'Hara ran the pub from 2000 until 2024, when ownership passed on. There is one Kelly's Cellars, trading only from this Bank Street address, distinct from other bars that have since copied its old-Belfast styling.
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