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🇮🇪 A modern Irish drinking odyssey
📝 Documenting Dublin pubs in opinion & anecdote.
📸 All photos our own
📅 Est. 2016
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Hiyas, You might have seen the recent news about Hiyas, You might have seen the recent news about The Cobblestone pub in Smithfield. I just wanted to upload a post, on the feed here about it, given the fleeting nature of stories on IG. There are plans to build a large hotel around The Cobblestone. Much of the existing structure is to be demolished and the bar is to be retained. It seems to be a very similar looking job to the monstrosity that engulfed The Tenters across the river in The Liberties. The pub itself would appear to be leased - so the people running would not be at the heart of the decision to allow development. This one really stings for a couple of reasons - one being that the news of it came in such quick succession to that about Merchant's Arch, but the other mostly being the fact that such a long-established focal point of culture could become the victim to rampant development in the name of greed and greed alone. The Cobblestone, as we have said in previous posts, is the foremost venue for authentic traditional music in the Capital. There is no other pub in Dublin City where you could roll in for a few Tuesday pints to be greeted by the sound of multiple Uillean Pipers. It's a home to singing nights, storytelling nights, dancing nights and umpteen other gatherings that serve to preserve our indigenous culture. What's most egregious about this, to my mind, is the fact that this hotel will pave over the building that houses the very type of thing that visitors come to Ireland to see or engage with. If it goes ahead, they'll retain the bar of the pub and they'll build a giant hotel around it. Then they'll do up the inside of the bar - pull out all the fittings and fixtures and put new stuff in with the 'traditional aesthetic'. There'll be tasteful art prints of the old pub in expensive frames on the wall. They'll bang on about 'their history' at every available opportunity - there'll be blurbs on the menu and on their website about how The Cobblestone Bar and Hotel™ is built on the site of the former epicentre of the Irish traditional music scene in the former market district of Smithfield. And they'll say that with absolutely no irony intended whatsoever. (1/2 – Contd. In Comments)
The Snug, on Stephen's Street. Snapped this one o The Snug, on Stephen's Street. Snapped this one over the last month or two when I seen the place was back open. This would be one of the wilder pubs we've visited. It's often said that this pub purveys the cheapest pint of Guinness in the city. It was €3.70, pre-pandemic. Not sure what it's going for now, though. Will have to drop in and find out. Anyone been in here before? Let's know what ya made of it in the comments, if you have. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #architecture #barsofinstagram #cityphotography #discoverdublin #discoverireland #dublin #dublinbypub #dublincity #dublinpub #dublinpubs #dublinstreets #guardiancities #guinness #igersdublin #ihavethisthingwithpints #ireland #irish #irishpub #irishwhiskey #lonelyplanet #lovedublin #loveireland #publichouse #publife #pubsofinstagram  #streetscape #travel #visitdublin #visitireland
The Oval on Abbey Street. Bombed during the Risin The Oval on Abbey Street. Bombed during the Rising, mentioned in Ulysses and said to have poured pints for John, Paul, George and Ringo after they'd the ears blasted off them in the Adelphi down the road. You could say it's seen its fair share of Dublin history. Part of Charlie Chawke's portfolio of pubs - we'd argue that it's the best of them and one of the best in the city, too. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #architecture #barsofinstagram #cityphotography #discoverdublin #discoverireland #dublin #dublinbypub #dublincity #dublinpub #dublinpubs #dublinstreets #guardiancities #guinness #igersdublin #ihavethisthingwithpints #ireland #irish #irishpub #irishwhiskey #lonelyplanet #lovedublin #loveireland #publichouse #publife #pubsofinstagram #streetscape #travel #visitdublin #visitireland
The Wind Jammer, on Lombard Street. Was quite happ The Wind Jammer, on Lombard Street. Was quite happy to see it open again and to get a chance to update the existing image we had of it. It's one of the ever-dwindling number of early houses scattered across the capital and as Eamon Dunphy once said - 'There's nothing more delightful than an Early House' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #architecture #barsofinstagram #cityphotography #discoverdublin #discoverireland #dublin #dublinbypub #dublincity #dublinpub #dublinpubs #dublinstreets #guardiancities #guinness #igersdublin #ihavethisthingwithpints #ireland #irish #irishpub #irishwhiskey #lonelyplanet #lovedublin #loveireland #publichouse #publife #pubsofinstagram #streetscape #travel #visitdublin #visitireland
Chatting on twitter this morning about O'Connell's Chatting on twitter this morning about O'Connell's in Portobello and glad to hear that it's recently reopened alongside all of those pubs who were closed, with no reprieve, for so long. I've added it to the list of public houses to visit when I get my vaxxpass. Its a long list. What pubs are foremost on your list to return to this summer? . . . . . . . . . . . . #architecture #barsofinstagram #cityphotography #discoverdublin #discoverireland #dublin #dublinbypub #dublincity #dublinpub #dublinpubs #dublinstreets #guardiancities #guinness #igersdublin #ihavethisthingwithpints #ireland #irish #irishpub #irishwhiskey #lonelyplanet #lovedublin #loveireland #publichouse #publife #pubsofinstagram  #streetscape #travel #visitdublin #visitireland
Wanted to share these black and white film photogr Wanted to share these black and white film photographs. All the pubs pictured were closed at the time they were taken. They, the photos, are nothing spectacular, but I've a bit of an attachment to them as they're some of the first I've shot on film. And with waiting for developing and scanning and all, I'm glad to see they've turned out, at all. I suppose they're a bit of a metaphor for that only-ok pint you might have had in a finally-reopened pub recently. It wasn't anything near the best one you've ever had, but with having waited so long for it, you were just glad it was there on front of you... Then again, that's a load of sh*te. All the pints I've had in newly reopened pubs have been 10/10. Hahaha. Anyhow, I don't think we'll be going analogue on the account here anytime soon, but it's nice to have a bit of content to share all the same. . . . . . . . . . . . . #architecture #barsofinstagram #cityphotography #discoverdublin #filmphotography #dublin #dublinbypub #dublincity #dublinpub #dublinpubs #dublinstreets #shootfilm #guinness #igersdublin #ihavethisthingwithpints #ireland #irish #irishpub #irishwhiskey #lonelyplanet #lovedublin #loveireland #publichouse #publife #pubsofinstagram  #streetscape #travel #blackandwhitephotography #dublinisilblackandwhite
O'Reilly's, under Tara Street Railway Station. The O'Reilly's, under Tara Street Railway Station. The actual entrance to the pub is a fairly drab looking lane, so this little bit of frontage out the back, on the further end of Poolbeg Street, is a good saviour for snap-hungry photographers like me. Back in the day we'd have called this pub the natural successor to Eamon Doran's, after it closed. But, now, with more hindsight, I'm not sure we could be so certain of that one, or even that Doran's could have actually been succeeded. So much has happened and so much time has passed, that Eamon Doran's has entered that Fr Dougal sort of space in my head. The one that finds it difficult to differentiate between dreams and reality. I better go and study the old diagram. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #architecture #barsofinstagram #cityphotography #discoverdublin #discoverireland #dublin #dublinbypub #dublincity #dublinpub #dublinpubs #dublinstreets #guardiancities #guinness #igersdublin #ihavethisthingwithpints #ireland #irish #irishpub #irishwhiskey #lonelyplanet #lovedublin #loveireland #publichouse #publife #pubsofinstagram #streetscape #travel #visitdublin #visitireland
Hyne's of Stoneybatter, purported to be Pintman, P Hyne's of Stoneybatter, purported to be Pintman, Paddy Losty's Local - looking a little rough, in recent months. I'd heard it was soon to be no more, so wanted to get up and get a better snap of it than the one I already had of it in its current guise. Though, after I did, I came across a few posts alluding to it being under new ownership, so should hopefully look a little less desolate in the weeks and months to come. Looking forward to getting a snap of it then. . . . . . . . . #architecture #barsofinstagram #cityphotography #discoverdublin #discoverireland #dublin #dublinbypub #dublincity #dublinpub #dublinpubs #dublinstreets #guardiancities #guinness #igersdublin #ihavethisthingwithpints #ireland #irish #irishpub #irishwhiskey #lonelyplanet #lovedublin #loveireland #publichouse #publife #pubsofinstagram  #streetscape #travel #visitdublin #visitireland
Morning! We undertook a bit of an audit on our im Morning! We undertook a bit of an audit on our image archive recently and identified a heap of pictures, therein, that were probably short of the quality standard that our more recent ones were at. So, with the pubs back open, and given that we prefer to have images of open pubs, we've thankfully been able to get out and get some new shots. Anyway, here's one of Clarke's City Arms, a pub with ties to James Joyce. It seems that it is, or was, a Cavan owned pub - given the 1980's Anglo-Celt advertisement, included in the post, which we've dragged out of the archives. We've a full post on the pub further back on our feed, or up on dublinbypub.ie. Whatever you're having, yourself. Strangely, or maybe not that strangely enough, we've found that writing up pubs was a fairly difficult thing to do in the midst of the lockdown that we've just come out of. Thankfully, though, the want to get back writing about pubs has started to worm its way into my own consciousness, so hopefully, we should have some new pub posts published by the time the Summer's out.
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