The Wicked Monk 730 A.D.-Present: A Long Journey From Cork, Ireland to Bay Ridge
Some 25 years ago, a young lad from Cork City, Ireland had an idea to build a unique bar in a neighborhood in Brooklyn with a rich history of drinking establishments called Bay Ridge. Mick Dorgan had learned the bartending trade before he eventually joined the FDNY. He had a feeling the time was right for a place only he could have imagined.
Back near his home was an old monastery in a place called Gillabey with a sordid history filled with debauchery, hangings and burnings. There are even stories of several bloody battles between Viking Raiders and the monastery’s monks and natives.
A huge warrior known as The Patriot Monk was the only reason the Green Mount monastery survived these assaults dating back to the eighth and ninth centuries A.D. In the early 1990s, it was finally scheduled for demolition after well over a millennium of wickedness.