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  • Agnes Brown’s: Thomas St.
  • Arthur’s: Thomas St.
  • The Back Page: Phibsborough Road
  • Bakers: Thomas Street
  • The Bankers: Dame Lane
  • Bar Rua: Clarerndon Street.
  • Becky Morgan’s: Grand Canal Street Lower
  • The Beer Market: High St.
  • The Bernard Shaw: Richmond St. South
  • The Black Sheep: Capel St.
  • The Bohemian (McGeough’s): 66 Phibsborough Road
  • Brannigan’s: Cathedral St.
  • The Bridge Tavern: Summerhill Parade
  • Briody’s: Marlborough St.
  • Brogan’s: Dame St.
  • Cassidy’s: Camden St.
  • The Celt: Talbot St.
  • The Chancery Inn: Inns Quay
  • Chaplin’s: Hawkins’ St.
  • Clarke’s City Arms: Prussia St.
  • Clarke’s Phibsborough House: Phibsborough Road
  • ​The Clock: Thomas St.
  • The Cobblestone: King St.
  • The Confession Box: Marlborough St
  • Cumiskey’s: Dominick St.
  • ​The Dawson Lounge: Dawson St.
  • The Deer’s Head: Parnell St.
  • Delaney’s: King St.
  • Devitt’s: Camden St.
  • Doheny & Nesbitt’s: Baggot St.
  • The Dominick Inn: Dominick St.
  • Doyle’s: College St.
  • Doyle’s Corner: Phibsborough Road
  • The Duke: Duke Street.
  • East Side Tavern: Leeson St. Lower
  • Fallon’s: The Coombe
  • The Ferryman: Sir John Rogerson’s Quay
  • Fibber Magee’s
  • Fitzgerald’s: Aston Quay
  • The Flowing Tide: Abbey St.
  • Frank Ryan’s: Queen St.
  • The George: George’s St.
  • Gill’s: Russell Street
  • ​The Ginger Man: Fenian St.
  • ​The Glimmer Man: Stoneybatter
  • Grainger’s: Talbot St.
  • Grogan’s: South William St.
  • Hanlon’s: Hanlon’s Corner
  • Ha’Penny Bridge Inn: Wellington Quay
  • Hartigan’s: Leeson St.
  • The Hut: Phibsborough Road.
  • Hyne’s: Prussia St.
  • The International Bar: Wicklow St.
  • J.& M. Cleary’s – Amiens St.
  • J O’Connell’s: South Richmond St.
  • J.W Sweetman
  • Jimmy Rabbitte’s: Camden St.
  • J.J. Smyth’s: Aungier St.
  • John Kavanagh (The Gravediggers’): Prospect Avenue
  • Kavanagh’s: Aughrim St.
  • Kehoe’s: South Anne St.
  • Kennedy’s: Westland Row
  • Kimchi Hophouse: Parnell St.
  • L. Mulligan Grocer: Stoneybatter.
  • The Lamplighter: The Coombe
  • Lannigan’s: Eden Quay
  • The Liberty Belle: Francis St.
  • Lloyd’s: Amiens St.
  • The Long Hall: George’s Street
  • The Long Stone: Townsend St.
  • The Lord Edward: Christchurch Place.
  • The Lower Deck: Portobello Harbour
  • Lowry’s: Summerhill Parade.
  • M Hughes: Chancery St.
  • Madigan’s : Abbey St.
  • Madigan’s: North Earl St.
  • Madigan’s: O’Connell St.
  • McCann’s: James’ St.
  • McDaids: Harry St.
  • McGettigan’s: Queen St.
  • McGrattan’s: Fitzwilliam Lane
  • Molloy’s: Talbot St.
  • Nancy Hands: Parkgate St.
  • O Donoghue’s: Suffolk St.
  • O Neill’s: Suffolk St.
  • O Reilly’s: Tara St. Station.
  • The Oak: Dame St.
  • The Old Royal Oak: Kilmainham Lane
  • The Old Storehouse – Crown Alley
    (A Pint with Shane MacGowan)
  • The Open Gate Brewery – Thomas St.
  • The Oval: Middle Abbey St.
  • The Palace Bar: Fleet St.
  • Peadar Brown’s: Clanbrassil St.
  • Peadar Kearney’s: Dame St.
  • Peter’s Pub: Johnson Place
  • Piper’s Corner: Marlborough St.
  • Ruin Bar: Tara St
  • Ryan’s: Store St.
  • Shanahan’s The Coombe
  • Sheehan’s: Chatham St.
  • The Silver Penny: Abbey St
  • Slattery’s: Capel Street
  • The Snug: Stephen Street
  • The Sunset House: Summerhill Parade.
  • The Swan: Aungier St.
  • T O’Brennan’s: Upper Dominick St.
  • T.P. Smith’s: Jervis St.
  • The Dice Bar: Benburb Street
  • The Lincoln’s Inn: Lincoln Place.
  • The Patriot’s Inn: Kilmainham
  • The Thomas House: Thomas St.
  • Tom Kennedy’s: Thomas St.
  • Tommy O Gara’s: Stoneybatter
  • Toner’s: Baggot St:
  • The Turk’s Head: Parliament St.
  • Walsh’s: Stoneybatter
  • The Wiley Fox: Eden Quay

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James Gill’s: Russell Street / NCR Recently, in James Gill’s: Russell Street / NCR

Recently, in thinking about what I was going to write about Gill’s pub on Russell Street, I had been conjuring up verses and choruses from The Rare Auld Times. Though Pete Saint John’s anthemic lament for old Dublin makes no mention of car rental offices, builders’ providers and decent Italian restaurants, you could argue that the sentiment of the song is one that very much applies to Russell Street in Dublin's North inner city. Famously home to the Behan family before they made the leap out to Crumlin, or Siberia as Brendan would quip, Russel Street - by all accounts - was typical of the sort of street that the rare old times bemoans the demise of – tenement lined, industry adjacent, bustling, and rebellious.

There are, however, still some tenuous remnants of the past to be found on this street. Croke Park, though a different beast these days, remains, as does the canal. A Celtic Tiger era block of apartments bears the name ‘Behan Square’. Arguably though, the strongest remaining tie to Russell Street of days gone by is the public house which sits on the easternmost side of its junction with the North Circular Road – James Gill’s.

Obviously, this piece is going to contain a lot of Behan references – and nobody needs me to tell them that there are a great many Brendan Behan quotes on the subject of drinking and drunkenness – but there’s one that I believe is most appropriate here. This is the one where Brendan remarked that “drunkenness was not regarded as a social disgrace”, in the Dublin of his time and how “To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement.” and “To get drunk was a victory.” And the reason I deem this one to be so appropriate is that when I finally managed to raise a glass to my lips within the walls of Gill’s, it did feel like a bit of a Victory. [1/3 Contd. In Comments]
Baker's: Thomas St. There’s one in every town a Baker's: Thomas St.

There’s one in every town and parish of Ireland. You can’t miss them as they cut a dash in shops, workplaces and public houses; going about their day to day mundanities. Nearly everything about them is as it should be – the attire is in keeping with what is to be expected, as is the accent and the mannerisms, there’s usually just the one thing that will stand out – the hair. Jet black and generally extending to flank the face with sideburns of varying sizes, this is the primary indicator of what I term a particular Irish character called ‘The Elvis Aulfella’.

Elvis Aulfellas, on average, tend to earn their keep as manual workers or as drivers. If there exists a job where one can sing or whistle freely, there is an Elvis Aulfella to fill it. Though manifested daily in their physical appearance, an Elvis Aulfella’s devotion to the king is not something that he may always be so outward about in general conversation. Should an Elvis Aulfella come to build your porch or pave your driveway, he’ll do just that – you shouldn’t expect yourself to be canvassed on the virtues of Presley in order to have the work done to an agreeable standard.

It’s at social gatherings where Elvis Aulfellas come into their own. DJs see them approach on the regular and cheap karaoke microphones are more than acquainted with their h-sound ladened warbling. They drink in normal pubs, local pubs – pubs like Bakers. In fact I’d go as far as to say that Bakers is the ideal Elvis Aulfella pub – and that’s not just because it was flush with Presley ephemera.

Bakers had a sort of a warm charm to it – a real down to earth shop. The walls were covered in all sorts of things pertaining to the tastes of the working class ageing Dublin gentleman. The sort of things they’d hang in a room of their own at home - if they had one. But the sizes of Liberties abodes being what they are, Bakers stepped in to provide a sort of communal man-cave for its customers. This, in turn, provided a real treasure trove for eejits, such as myself, who find interest in the modern social history of The Liberties in the face of all the gentrification ongoing, there. [1/2 Cont'd. In Comments]
There really are some beautifully decorated pubs a There really are some beautifully decorated pubs around the city at the moment. What are your favourite pub decorations up in Dublin at the moment? Let us know in the comments.

I don't have a proper long form write up on The Hole In The Wall done, I've only visited this year with the better half, and I don't feel I've had the proper drinking experience in the place I'd have otherwise had if I'd gone in peace-time.

I believe it to be the longest pub in Ireland. It was called the Black Horse Tavern in a previous life, and was colloquially known as Nancy Hands, due to the woman who steered the ship there, so to speak. She, or her pub, gets a mention or two in Joyce's Finnegan's wake. It also has, given it's proximity to The Park and The Áras, a President's Snug - that being a snug complete with a collection of portraits of all Irish presidents since the establishment of the State.

It looks a fine pub, and I can't wait to get back and have a few pints, sans food, though, mind you, the food was fairly tasty all the same.
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At the end of each year, amongst ourselves here at At the end of each year, amongst ourselves here at DublinByPub, we tend to take stock of the pubs that we enjoyed the most throughout the 12 months gone. Usually, its a bitter and argumentative process. One which takes a fair bit of falling out with one another to arrive at the end of.

For years, we've intended on doing a top ten pubs of the year, round-up sort of post in the month of December. But we never have, because we never manage to agree to any degree that it ever gets done. 

This year, as you already know, is different. There is no disparity amongst our ranks here when we sign our name to the statement that The Palace is our pub of the year, 2020.

This is the pub in which we've had the closest thing to a normal pub experience this year and while we already had a grà for the place to begin with, we are now full-on, hormonal teenager levels of besotted with the place.

Unfortunately they haven't been able to open for Christmas due to the latest guidelines and have rebranded, temporarily, as The Winter Palace, selling take away hot drinks - they are doing an Irish Coffee with Powers John's Lane and it's unreal.

We'd encourage you to drop by and get a winter warmer into you, if you're in the vicinity.

What a strange year it has been. I think we've posted maybe seven new pubs this year which is a paltry output, really. We've two more to publish before year end, which I'm putting the finishing touches on at the moment. So do keep an eye out for them.
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What I wouldn't give to be running running up the What I wouldn't give to be running running up the road to Christchurch to turn at the top and lay witness to this vista - an open Lord Edward. I'll never take pubs like this for granted ever again.
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Another image I snapped over the summer, this. I'v Another image I snapped over the summer, this. I've been trying to replace some of our old images that I took in the earlier days of Dublin By Pub. Before I got a DSLR and learned about the rule of thirds. Ha!
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L. Mulligan's is a great looking boozer. I think we bemoaned its food-centric nature back when we originally wrote it up, and don't we look like eejits now with the way food-pubs came into play over the summer.

I have to commend L Mulligan's and pubs like them. I've followed many of their journeys on social media through the year as they diversified into take away and then adapted to open back up again. I'm in awe of their spirit to keep going. It's this spirit that will keep our pubs available to us when things get back to some degree of normality and I'm reminding myself of that quite a bit this week, as it sort of feels like the darkest hour of the night now at the moment. Speaking in terms of pubs.

We'd urge you all to keep tabs with your favourite pubs on social media over the next six weeks and beyond. A lot of them have really gotten the hang of it over the last few months. If you haven't left them a review on google or facebook or tripadvisor, this might be an ideal time to do that. If they're doing take away pints get them in. I've been amazed at how well a pint of plain can turn up at your door from the boot of a car. A damn sight better than the can, even still.

I also included a couple of other images on this post, both lifted from old books about pubs. These depict L. Mulligan's in days gone by. I'll post the credit for these in the comments. I just don't have them to hand right now.
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In the short while we had there while the pubs wer In the short while we had there while the pubs were back open I managed to snap only a handful of them. One being Tom Kennedy's on Thomas Street.

I'm delighted to get a clearer snap of this pub, our old one leaves a fair bit to be desired.

Tom Kennedy's is a great little local Liberties boozer. It would be fair to say that its profile was given a bit of a boost back when the @guinnessadvisor came on the scene and start extolling the virtues of the stout that pours here. He or she wasn't half wrong either, in that regard. It's a quality pint.

I think I'm about as fed up as everyone else with the state that the city's public houses are in as a result of COVID these days. And it'll be a sad Christmas this year to think that there won't be a pint to be had in Kennedy's before or after the ritual trip to see Damo Dempsey in Vicar Street.

Hopefully we can keep the heads down for a few weeks and get back to places like this one before the year's out. I can nearly taste the first mouthful of stout thinking about it here.

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The Turk’s Head: Parliament Street. Back there The Turk’s Head: Parliament Street.

Back there in March at the outset of the end of the world, when everyone was elbow deep in everyone else - fighting for jaxx roll and self-raising flour, you might have seen me up on the quays, at the mouth of Parliament Street, sketch book in hand, scribbling away.  You see, like a sizeable part of my commonly crowd-shy countrymen and women, I had found myself diluting and rationing the last of my quickly dwindling supply of soap. After the deluge of panickers had subsided, me and my ilk would be left to find shelves, which would normally replenish our supplies of soap, utterly barren.

It was then that I thought of the Sunlight Chambers – a building which sits on the westernmost corner of the Liffey end of Parliament Street. The building is characterised by glazed ceramic friezes which run above the ground and first floors along the length of the building’s façade. Running in a sort of storyboard arrangement, the friezes are said to depict the process of making soap - a sort of early 1900s YouTube tutorial, if you will.

As you might imagine, I wasn’t really able to extrapolate any of the required information on how to get the DublinByPub luxury soap product line up and running, so instead I opted to take a ramble up Parliament Street. If you’re not too familiar with the street, I can only urge you to take a stroll up there some afternoon – it’s laden with historical significance to the city of Dublin: It leads up to City Hall, it contains Thomas Read’s – Dublin’s oldest shop and it’s also home to The Turk’s Head. A pub whose name dates back quite some time. [1/3 Contd. In Comments]
Nancy Hands: Parkgate Street You might note, as y Nancy Hands: Parkgate Street

You might note, as you take your travels around this city and find yourself, over a pint, sneaking a listen to a group with a good variance of age, that there may occur a moment where two people at opposing ends of the chronological spectrum will be speaking about what they both believe to be the same Dublin pub. And you might notice that when one of the two makes a description of the pub, that it doesn’t exactly conform to the description made by the other. And if you’re just that inquisitive, you might think to yourself that these two people are speaking about two entirely different places. And you’d probably be right.

Where the pubs of Dublin are concerned, convolution is often the order of the day. There are dozens of cases of pubs in Dublin bearing a name which once adorned entirely different premises. And as you might have imagined, Nancy Hands falls under that remit too. Having been previously named as The Deer Park, the pub takes its current name from a pub in the Phoenix Park, The Hole in The Wall, which used to be called – you guessed it: Nancy Hands.

The name Nancy Hand’s, as it turns out, is no stranger to convolution when you consider that its biggest claim, arguably, is the references made to it in Joyce’s ‘Finnegan’s Wake’, what this author believes to be the most convoluted piece of writing ever produced.

The pub is traditional in its appearance, red brick and wood abound to create a beautiful interior. The most famous feature of the pub is perhaps one of its staircases, which was taken from Trinity College, where it featured in the film ‘Educating Rita’. But this certainly isn’t the only talking point of the pub which is awash with curios and bric-a-brac. We’ve read that some of the seating comes from a church in Yorkshire and that the decorative copper frontage was salvaged from a butcher in Wales. [1/3 Contd. In Comments]
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