Since it first opened in 1996, Copper Face Jacks has become an Irish institution, a place where you are guaranteed to bump into a guard and where you will almost certainly hear Wagon Wheel.Stefanie Preissner“It’s like Clery’s clock except when you’re drunk,” she said. “It’s a place that country people go where we know we’re going to see someone wearing the same shirt as us.”
“There’s no need for a house party when Dublin has Coppers because that’s where everyone is going to end up.”, the writer of Coppers: The Musical, described it as “probably the most successful pub and nightclub that’s ever been in this country”. Its appeal, he said, lies squarely in the fact that it doesn’t take itself too seriously.
“It is very much a pints kind of nightclub. It’s meat and two veg. That’s why people love it and that’s why it draws people.”“It’s a grand spot,” said John Byrne, who was up for the night from Co Carlow. “It stays open late when there’s nowhere else to really go. It’s a good laugh and good craic in there. It’s a handy pull as well there, you know?”“It’s iconic to come to Dublin and go to Coppers, at least for country people,” he added.
It has lasted well beyond a nightclubs sell by date 1996 - 2019, get a life and find another place to go for a boogie.