Possible Clues:

• Pub boards
• Panels of locals, at home functions, given a hearing
• Pub name boards
• O'Casey's Rose and Crown, Jameson's Green Man and Stout's Red Bull, for example?
• For example, Coppard's The Black Dog, Jameson's The Green Man and Iain Banks's The Bridge
• Bar notices?
• Not, by the sound of it, in speech outside the pubs
• One lot of poles holding soldier up in bushes