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In defence of the Strawberry Hall. An arbitrary, In defence of the Strawberry Hall. An arbitrary, outside the canals, post, this one - but social media being what it is, we just wanted to stick our oar into the slippery depths of the online discourse that's been doing the rounds, and making the headlines, over the last few days regarding The Strawberry Hall. (Google the pub and hit news if you're wondering) We could likely count on the fingers from one set of hands, the amount of times we've cumulatively set foot in The Strawberry Hall. It's an awkward one to get to, down there by the banks of the Liffey. But as they say - what's seldom is wonderful. There are but a handful of pubs in this city that seem to have that unknown quantity, the magic touch, the je ne sais quoi. The Strawberry Hall is certainly one of them. When we first journeyed there, walking out from town of a beautiful summer's day we were struck by the kindness and the hospitality given to us by locals but especially by the staff. They kept us well fed and watered for the duration of our stay there and were even as kind as to ferry us up to Chapelizod so that we'd be able to get a taxi back, eastward, once we'd had our fill, or more than our fill in some cases. Over the years, we've come to develop dozens of ancillary theories and theorems around pubs and one such one is that a pub which provides deodorant for its customers tends to also happen to be a cracking pub. Unsurprisingly, they do this in the Strawberry Hall (and the Royal Oak in Kilmainham btw). The pint, seen as that's what got us talking about the place in this instance, has always struck us as a great one. We've been in this year and it's going for a fiver! in 2023!! A full €1.50 less that what I paid for the same in The Long Hall last week. Value unsurpassed. We think that they who shall remain nameless, who prompted a response from the pub, themselves, and subsequently inspired a deluge of articles from online news sources, got this one wrong. As we all do in life sometimes. But we'll also say that we've always found him to be a sound chap. And, as Brendan Behan said - there's no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Leonard's Corner: Leonard's Corner. Looking back Leonard's Corner: Leonard's Corner. Looking back on it now, with the gift of hindsight, and decent software that chronologically catalogued all the photos from the year, I can see that we were fitting a lot into that summer. Big weekends like the one in question weren't as abnormal as they’ve admittedly become. The body and the circumstances were better equipped for an action-packed Thursday to Sunday extravaganza with a full itinerary of very late finishes. It was at the tail end of one of these glorious weekends that I would first cross the threshold of Leonard’s Corner. It was a Sunday, nay – it was the Sunday. World Cup Final Sunday, and we were away to deepest darkest South Dublin to watch the fixture in a friend’s house. Yours truly was barely upright and still contending with the Charlies that had been consumed when the sun had already started to come up, a mere couple of hours prior. Having marginally survived the journey across the city, I located the nearest licensed outlet and immediately realized that, alike the 11 Croatians that were to be shortly lining out against France in Moscow, I was going to have to play this one tactically. Cans of stout would not be on the bill of fare for that afternoon. Nor was lager or any other such widely available beer that was for sale in the supermarket I’d found myself in. I had almost settled on cider, when, for some reason at that particular moment, it was obvious that several different variants of cheap sparkling wine were the necessary tonic required for reviving my ailing soul. A couple of hours later and things had improved exponentially. Now cured about three times over and with a few quid of French Sweepstakes money in the back pocket, I found myself in tow with some friends as we crawled our way out of Harold’s Cross and towards Clanbrassil Street. Naturally, it wasn’t long before we arrive to Leonard’s Corner. [𝟭/𝟯 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗯𝘆𝗽𝘂𝗯.𝗶𝗲 - 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗶𝗼]
Lowe's: Dolphin's Barn. A clamper, a man with a b Lowe's: Dolphin's Barn. A clamper, a man with a battery-powered angle grinder and a recently clamped motorist all walk into a bar… Fear not reader, this isn’t the first line of a poorly constructed joke – this is the scene which presented itself to me upon arrival to Lowe’s in Dolphin’s Barn of an afternoon, earlier in the year. But let me come back to that a little bit later on. Lowes, along with its neighbouring pubs, are ones that have evaded the clutches of DublinByPub for quite a spell. We certainly hadn’t been actively avoiding Cork Street and Dolphin’s Barn – this just wound up being a thoroughfare we never managed to make it past The Liberties to. But with the pubs open anew in the early part of last year we set a course to tackle the street once and for all. And of the three pubs along that particular stretch, Lowe’s the best by a country mile. A one-room pub, narrowing at the back, Lowe’s has a traditional décor. With plain brown carpet underfoot, it contains all its low seating to the front of the pub in the guise of couches and low stools. Containing the pub’s medium-sized bar, the rear of the space contains the majority of the pub’s high stools. A side entrance to the pub brightens the pub decently during the day leaving us to deem the place to have been in good nick upon our first visit. On that first visit, I had mentioned to my fellow drinkers that Lowe’s had something of a unique trait, relative to the Dublin pub landscape. I had been saying that [𝟭/𝟯 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗯𝘆𝗽𝘂𝗯.𝗶𝗲 - 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗶𝗼]
Harkin's - The Harbour Bar: Grand Canal Place I w Harkin's - The Harbour Bar: Grand Canal Place I was thinking about canals the other week. Not just in general – I had Dublin’s two canals – The Royal on the Northside and the Grand on the Southside on my mind. Now I’m not here to delve into the wider history of them, today, but that’s well worth looking into if you’re so inclined. But the canals are often, relative to this blog, foremost in our thoughts. Like so many, we use them as boundaries – deeming them to denote where the city centre of Dublin starts and ends. But, as I sat down beside Patrick Kavanagh on my lunch break during the week – I was thinking too, how their initial purpose, to be used for trade and commerce, is virtually eradicated now. I was asking Paddy, whether he reckoned that his Canal Bank Walk poem might have been the thing that done it or at least heralded it. This change of the canal zeitgeist, as it were, to its modern form. The transformation of our consideration of this body of water to be a source of ecology, of nature and biodiversity and not solely a for-profit feat of engineering. Paddy, being a bronze statue, naturally did not respond to me. But I’ll post his poem here, which – as you’ll observe, makes no mention of industry or logistics. [1/3 Continued in full on dublinbypub.ie - Link for full article in bio]
It’s fair to say that we’ve made no secret of It’s fair to say that we’ve made no secret of the fact that DublinByPub can sometimes be a Brendan Behan fanzine disguised as a Pub Blog. We’ve often thought of compiling a Brendan Behan pub crawl but it had always been evident to us that if you were to make a crawl of Dublin Pubs that Behan had been known to frequent – you would be creating both an unassailable task and a public health risk. However, to mark the centenary of the great man’s birth this coming ninth of February, we thought we’d throw together something that that’s more of a pub walk than a crawl. Call it a ramble through Brendan’s Dublin with a few pints thrown in for good measure. We're going to link it in our stories today and you can find it in the link in our bio too. Managed to get plenty of stuff for the blog together in January. So plenty more to come in the first half of 2023. Happy February everyone!
Noctor’s: Sheriff St. Lower: Coming toward the l Noctor’s: Sheriff St. Lower: Coming toward the latter end of 2021, we’d had it fully planned and spec’ed out for a good while. It had been a slack year for the cause with all concerned in the DublinByPub ranks – assorted big life changes and a worldwide pandemic had given time its relished advantage to get between us. So when the opportunity to get the band back together and collectively hit a few city-centre pubs presented itself to us, we knew we had to make it count. It had to be one of our most wanted. It had to be Noctor’s. There was to be a half-day, a preferred route, and a plan b, we may have even discussed wardrobe at one stage. But in the end, pints, just like they always do, would make light work of all these well-honed plans, leaving a half-drunk troupe of us bundling up Sheriff Street under the cloak of darkness, a few weeks out from Christmas. Now let us, at the very outset, state that we have no interest in perpetuating the rough and ready classification that we've often heard attributed to Sheriff St. But with that said, we’re not looking to paint this part of Dublin 1 as some sleepy, oak-lined friendly avenue, either. We are but mere impressionable suburbanites. Suburbanites who exist and communicate, more than many, in that pub-talk realm of lore and hyperbole - and it’s in these spheres, exclusively, where we hear mention of, and talk of Noctor’s. And when this particular public house is up for discussion, the sentiment is never positive. It’s always tales and warnings of how “you’d take your life in your hands going up there” and that “you’d do well to keep away from that mad kip”, and so on, and so forth. So with these warnings and tales of woe, alongside other nuggets like the supposed fact that Jim Sheridan brought rapper, 50 Cent here one time, making our existing curiosity curiouser, it’s not long before we’re stepping through the adjoining financial district and making haste toward Sherriff Street. We may be, outwardly, acting like we’ve not heeded any of those cautions, but a spike of adrenaline, internally, is telling an altogether different tale. [1/3 Contd. in comments]
The Ginger Man on Fenian Street, named after a J.P The Ginger Man on Fenian Street, named after a J.P Donleavy book of the same name. Given it's décor, it would be well suited to changing its name to another Donleavy book around this time of year - Fairytale of New York
TOP 5 CHRISTMASSY DUBLIN PUBS. We've compiled a l TOP 5 CHRISTMASSY DUBLIN PUBS. We've compiled a list of our top five Christmassy boozers along with a bit of chat on seasonal drinking in general. Check the link on our stories, or in the bio, or wherever.
First they came for the culchies, and I did not sp First they came for the culchies, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a culchie. The Big Tree on Dorset Street, a pub popular with country men and women down throughout the ages. Pictured here after its recent hotelification. Sad to say I never got a decent image of it prior to this. . . . . . . . . . . . . #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
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