They’re the masters of shamrock-and-roll.
Infamous Irish punk band The Prodigals tossed back a new type of Guinness Friday and partied at their equally famous home pub like it was 1997.
Paddy Reilly’s Music Bar threw a Celtic celebration in honor of its homegrown musicians — who secured the World Record for “longest annual residency by a band” after 29 years of dedicated weekly shows at the Kips Bay landmark.
The crowd roared when the band took the stage — and went even crazier when old members picked up their instruments in an ode to the nearly three-decade legacy they have etched into the Manhattan bar.
“I am absolutely delighted,” Gregory Grene, The Prodigals’ lead singer, accordionist and only remaining original member, told The Post.
“Bizarrely, it’s a wonderful feeling of time continuing and standing still at the same time.”
The Prodigals were officially handed their Guinness World Record this week, but “The Open Reel” artists cemented their place in history on St. Patrick’s Day — the 29th anniversary of its first-ever show at Paddy Reilly’s that established its long-running partnership.
The band, currently comprised of Grene, drummer Eamon Ellams, guitarist Colin Forhan and flautist Sean Tierney, 35, plays every Friday and Saturday night at the pub — when they’re not touring around the world.
It took some time to muster up the pay stubs, newspaper articles and other documents that proved they had consistently played at the pub, a tedious process that offered its members a nostalgic trip down memory lane.
The Prodigals got their start at the bar in 1997 after Grene pleaded with then-owner Steve Duggan to give a fellow “Cavan [County] lad” his career start — a chance that legendary flute and whistle player Joanie Madden ushered Duggan to take.
A few years later, Christy Turlington hired The Prodigals for a yacht party and then followed them back to the pub for a “wild night” of partying that became front-page news for Page Six.
Grene met the woman who became the mother of his daughter — who grew up to be a talented violinist in her own right — and the band’s music was plucked for the 2008 movie, “Pride and Glory,” starring Edward Norton and Colin Farrell.
Paddy Reilly’s also hosts an annual fundraiser every year in honor of Grene’s twin brother, Andrew, a United Nations advisor who died in the 2010 Haiti earthquake and whose picture hangs inside the venerable venue — an example of the “family” that has been cultivated over the years.
“It’s just simply extraordinary. There’s a warmth in this city that doesn’t always get the spotlight that it should. It is the smallest big city in the world,” Grene said of the Big Apple.
Although the members have had several rotations over the years and the bar’s ownership changed hands in 2023, Grene said the most glaring change is simply in the crowds that come every Friday and Saturday — most of whom weren’t even born when the band knocked back their first whiskey there.
“It’s a really young, enthusiastic crowd that sort of feels like it’s renewing itself in funny ways. It feels strangely analogous to the ones we had back then. But of course, at this point, they would be the parents of these guys who are dancing!” said Grene.
“It just looks like the bar exactly did 30 years ago.”
When it comes to another band coming in to sweep their new world record, the Luck of the Irish appears to be on The Prodigal’s side.
No other bands seem to be anywhere close to their near-30-year run — and they have no plans on slowing down.
“We may think about calling quits after the next 30, but we’ll see!” said Grene.
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