‘Mary of the Moulders’ 1926 – 1998

Mary Ann Keaney (Nee Cusack) AKA – “Mary of the Moulders” 1926 – 1998

Born Shankill, Cavan, Ireland. 1926

Arrived in Luton, Bedfordshire, England 1947

First Job in Luton – S.K.F (UK) Ltd 1948 (Approx)

Second Job in Luton – Kingsway Tavern 1950 (Approx)

Third Job in Luton – George Tap 1953

Married Killygarry, Cavan, Ireland. 1959

Fourth Job in Luton – Moulders Arms 1959

Publican of the Year Moulders Arms Luton 1980

Retired from the Year Moulders Arms Luton 1983

Returned to Shankill, Cavan, Ireland to Live 1995

Passed Away 1998

Memories of Mary by our Facebook supporters collected in 2021

“Auntie Mary, what can I say? We as a family have wonderful memories of great times with Auntie Mary, Jimmy & Angela in the Moulders. She was a great Landlady to all her customers, which many were treated as her extended family. She was well known for her cooking & baking. Both Auntie Mary and our mum Anna (her sister) shared lovely memories about working in the pub trade”. - Geraldine Mccormick

“I went in there only a couple of times and she was such a lovely welcoming lady. I remember she had a small china plate on a stand behind the bar, which included a lovely photograph of JFK and Jackie Kennedy which may have been a souvenir of the JFK visit to Ireland in the June before he was assassinated”. - Pat Smyth

“I was in the same form class with Jimmy (Mary’s son) whilst at Cardinal Newman and when each of us turned 14 Mrs Keaney would serve us a pint of beer, it was considered an honour. She was a lovely lady and Jimmy was a lovely bloke and friend!!”. - Robert Donohue

“When I was on day release at the tech in the 60s, I used to go in the Moulders with a couple of mates at lunchtime for a game of darts and a pint of Manns brown and mild or two. Mary made us so welcome we never ever made it back to college for the first lesson of the afternoon!”. - Geoff Moule

“Lunchtimes at Luton Tech … sometimes forgetting to go back!” - John Burke & Ray Morrison

“Ahh, I was a teenager in the 60s, frequented the Moulders Arms, remember Mary, lovely lady”. - Nancy Moran Nobbs

“Mary was a lovely lady. The Moulders was our local every Saturday night”. - Eileen Puddephatt

“The Moulders. Great pub great landlady. One of our stops on the Friday Park Street pub crawl from Osborne Road to Market Hill”. - Malcolm Haynes

“Lovely woman made everyone welcome. Real friendly pub”. - Ruth Taaffe