Cape Cod Irish Pubs - A documentary series by Mark Renburke

07/13/2026

Three years since the release of Cape Cod Irish Pubs documentary and there have been some significant positive changes in the local Irish pub scene!

The Auld Triangle opened in Hyannis, local music legend Terry Brennan opened his own pub, Central Tavern in South Dennis, and finally Cape Cod Irish Village moved to the Aiden (formerly Best Western) in West Yarmouth.

What Cape Cod Irish Pub news did I miss?

Watch the full 2023 documentary here:

As we take a journey across the Cape, we'll experience some of the ...

01/19/2025

New music video for original recording of two polkas featured in the soundtrack of Cape Cod Irish Pubs.

10/27/2024

The Rising Pints 2025 Reunion Tour Japan preliminary schedule!

3/14 (Fri): Shamrock Irish Pub, Nagoya
3/15 (Sat): TBA
3/16 (Sun): Shooters, Nagoya
3/17 (Mon): Blarney Stone, Osaka

Stay tuned for more info.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLBrf5CLgKXxL8w0yuGdM-frhk9kamjSR&si=FOF4TPXNaLDWkcgO

10/06/2024

Out there ‘on the road’ with the boys promoting a new single from The Rising Pints fourth album, entitled…Forth 🤣😉☘️🪕🎶

“Goodbye Mursheen Durkin” live at GIAHS
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Studio version on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2tlQcGOCp355V0UecHRCti

Brian Cullen William Matheny Stan Forostoski Jacob Michaud

09/17/2024

Happy half-way to St. Patrick’s Day! To celebrate, here’s some new music from The Rising Pints, “Black is the Colour”, featuring the dulcet tones of Brian Cullen with special guest Tomonori Shimizu on fiddle.

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09/16/2024

The sign from a year ago never gets old, nor ceases to give me a chuckle as it says half past rather than halfway. Yesterday, being my birthday, especially, if I am now over the hill when was I ever under hill?? 🤣

09/14/2024

Happy Half-Way to St. Patrick’s Day weekend from me, Renburke's Rovers and The Rising Pints; here’s a little something from the video archive to set the mood: St. Patrick’s Day 1997 with Brian Cullen, William Matheny & the rest of the Pints. Fabrice Chotin, is that you belting out a most appropriate “Wahoo!” at the start??

00:00 Mrs. Oshima, family & friends01:30 I Miss Dublin (B. Cullen)05:10 The Bold O'Donoghue07:38 Audience practices shouting "Conshine"08:27 Do You Want Your...

09/09/2024

Ok, I have some big news to share, exactly 6 months from today I will board a plane for Japan for the first time in a quarter century to reunite with my brothers from others mothers from The Rising Pints, Brian Cullen and William Matheny and perform on St. Patrick’s Day.

Here’s an appropriately inappropriate preview, starting with “I Fall Apart”, a song William “wrote before I was born” and including synchronized head snaps by Brian & I, and cigarette nose fancy dancer. Keepin’ it classy.

https://youtu.be/MZLiJLt-qk8?si=SvElKmiyh4WPJGla =24m42s

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09/01/2024

Every musician has different ways they define achieving professional success. For me, singing for a 93-year old Irish woman who smiles and sings along with songs she learned as a child is near the top of my list.

08/18/2024

The Rising PintStory documentary officially kicks off production next weekend at the brilliant The Auld Triangle in Hyannis. Very excited to share our origin story! Featuring interviews from Brian Cullen, William Matheny & yours truly. Stay tuned for more info!