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From Baring All to Belting Elton: Meagher’s and the Great Circle of Pub Life

It was one of those wholesome, heart-warming moments. The type of thing that could have done numbers on TikTok or Instagram, or wherever things do numbers these days, if anyone had been bothered to film it. First of all, the setting was perfect…

Nazi Bombings, Hollywood Legends, and a Teetotaler’s Last Pint—The Wild History of Cusack’s Pub

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There I was, all set to start this write-up on the perfect line. I had gone over it in my head when I’d be passing by the pub on the bus, reciting different variations of it, playing around with the phrasing and the timing over and over again: It…

The South Strand

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If you happened to suffer from auto-brewery syndrome: a rare gastro-intestinal condition where your digestive system ferments ingested food to alcohol and causes you to slur your speech, stumble, find it difficult to carry out normal motor…

Dublin’s Top 25 Pubs

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It started, as most things often do, as a bit of craic. Apple Music ran a countdown of the Top 100 Albums on their Twitter. And I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be good craic to do that for pubs?Fast forward a few days and DublinByPub…

Joyce, Plunkett and Why We Should Name a Metro Station After The Brian Boru Pub

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Come as a surprise, Leixlip, Clonsilla. Dropping down lock by lock to Dublin. With turf from the midland bogs. Salute. He lifted his brown straw hat, saluting Paddy Dignam.They drove on past Brian Boroimhe house. Near it now. James Joyce,…

From Stevedores to Life on Mars: U2, Bowie and The Dockers Pub.

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On a September’s Friday evening, hardy drinkers have gathered into a quayside pub to mark the end of their working week. The pub, named in accordance with their customer’s and their customer’s forebearer’s profession, is in full swing…

Dublin’s Top 25 PubsMay 30, 2024 - 10:11 pm
It started, as most things often do, as a bit of craic. Apple Music ran a countdown of the Top 100 Albums on their Twitter. And I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be good craic to do that for pubs? Fast forward a few days and DublinByPub has the attention of Dublin Pub Twitter, who […]
The Battle for The Cobblestone Pub: RevisitedJune 26, 2023 - 4:15 pm
Back in 2014, the inimitable and ground-breaking Dublin folk discombobulaters, Lankum, in their song Cold Old Fire prophetically sang of how they: look for signs that Dublin’s heart’s still beating,That concrete and glass and peelers and mass, they haven’t stopped the people from screaming. When it came toward the latter half of 2021, some 7 […]
An Afternoon in The Palace BarJanuary 22, 2023 - 10:00 am
As of this moment, I’ve a list of about twelve pubs that I need to get written up for the blog and I really shouldn’t be writing this thing. But for some reason, probably because I’m afraid of forgetting it, I’ve decided that I’m going to forego normal programming and commit this one to paper. […]
Top 5 Christmas Pubs 2022December 20, 2022 - 8:00 am
Christmas – it comes earlier and earlier each year. And arriving earlier alongside it is that time-honoured tradition that me and mine call CCP season. CCPs, not to be confused with The Chinese Communist Party are Cosy Christmas Pints. Though sharing many similarities to normal pints, Cosy Christmas Pints have several unique defining characteristics which […]
The Last Night in The Flowing TideNovember 29, 2022 - 9:00 am
The news came through in the same way that news like this often does – via rumour and hearsay. A friend of a friend’s workmate was “in there the other night and the barman said it’s closing in a week, getting turned into a hotel.” I know now that I’ve let might have let stewardship […]

From Baring All to Belting Elton: Meagher’s and the Great Circle of Pub Life

Nazi Bombings, Hollywood Legends, and a Teetotaler’s Last Pint—The Wild History of Cusack’s Pub

The South Strand

Dublin’s Top 25 Pubs

Joyce, Plunkett and Why We Should Name a Metro Station After The Brian Boru Pub

From Stevedores to Life on Mars: U2, Bowie and The Dockers Pub.

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