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The Foggy Dew, And Why Oliver Cromwell is Responsible for Dublin’s Best Sunday Gig

Packed into the pub corner, the sweaty milieu are assembled with little regard for personal space. In various mixes of pork pie hats, belts, braces, polo, checkered and gingham shirts - they shake the foundations with their Doc Marten stomps.…

Overheard at the King’s Inn: Creamy Pints and a Glimpse into the World of Petty Crime.

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Upon the cobblestone streets built over basement dwellings which once made up the quarters of the lowest of the pauper class, Dubliners can still hear the clipping and the clopping of expensive leather as it makes its way up Henrietta Street. In…

The Battle for The Cobblestone Pub: Revisited

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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…

Kenny’s Pub and why Ireland’s First Taoiseach Probably Liked Elvis

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Standing and sitting all around him, they gaze ahead, unemotionally, and in glib expectation of a continuance of the mediocrity that has so far graced the stage on this cold winter's night. He has no light show, no backing band, and no bejewelled…

Operation Barnstorm and Why We Need to Hide The Barn House Pub from The USA.

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When the war finally came and the sands around the city were raised by hellfire from above, Amani could hardly believe the calm that had washed over her. All through the previous weeks, nervous energy had clung to every street in the city like…

Smells, Slang & Stout; Why The Malt House is a Working Class Davy Byrne’s

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Each and every June, they don their straw boaters and bedeck themselves in their finest Edwardian splendour. By foot, bicycle, and horse-drawn cart, they can be seen as they to and fro around that familiar circuit. They'll be spotted alongside…

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 […]
Some new (very old) whiskies in three Dublin Pubs.November 14, 2022 - 12:14 am
For an hour and a half, I drank liquor so rare You’d swear it was made by the gods in the air Out of nectars and honey, and lotuses fair. And it freshly came over the border. When I came to write this little blog post, it was entirely appropriate that I had the above-quoted […]

The Foggy Dew, And Why Oliver Cromwell is Responsible for Dublin’s Best Sunday Gig

Overheard at the King’s Inn: Creamy Pints and a Glimpse into the World of Petty Crime.

The Battle for The Cobblestone Pub: Revisited

Kenny’s Pub and why Ireland’s First Taoiseach Probably Liked Elvis

Operation Barnstorm and Why We Need to Hide The Barn House Pub from The USA.

Smells, Slang & Stout; Why The Malt House is a Working Class Davy Byrne’s

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