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New Website / Pub Prints for Sale
Read more…: New Website / Pub Prints for SaleOnly for Twitter’s reminder feature that tells users when they opened their account, I wouldn’t actually remember it. But mid-October marks the anniversary of when DublinByPub became a thing, a…
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From Jim Gavin to Gin Martinis: A Recent History of The Sackville Lounge
Read more…: From Jim Gavin to Gin Martinis: A Recent History of The Sackville LoungeIt was relatively early on a hungover Sunday, some years ago, that I found myself in a packed Sackville Lounge, settling into the last available seat, tucked away at the…
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A Medium Rare Reception: How One Look Told Me Everything About Murrays on O’Connell Street.
Read more…: A Medium Rare Reception: How One Look Told Me Everything About Murrays on O’Connell Street.I can’t say for certain, but I think I’m happy enough to say that if there were a competition for the strangest or most unique time anyone has ever come…
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Pubs, Power Cuts, And How The Landmark Made Me Realise I Wasn’t Young Anymore
Read more…: Pubs, Power Cuts, And How The Landmark Made Me Realise I Wasn’t Young AnymoreLately, on foot of my mentioning The Landmark Pub to a tradesman, I’ve been pondering the intangible phenomenon that marches us all slowly toward the grave – that is to…
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From Baring All to Belting Elton: Meagher’s and the Great Circle of Pub Life
Read more…: From Baring All to Belting Elton: Meagher’s and the Great Circle of Pub LifeIt 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…
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Nazi Bombings, Hollywood Legends, and a Teetotaler’s Last Pint—The Wild History of Cusack’s Pub
Read more…: Nazi Bombings, Hollywood Legends, and a Teetotaler’s Last Pint—The Wild History of Cusack’s PubThere 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…
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The South Strand
Read more…: The South StrandIf 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…
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Dublin’s Top 25 Pubs
Read more…: Dublin’s Top 25 PubsIt 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,…
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Joyce, Plunkett and Why We Should Name a Metro Station After The Brian Boru Pub
Read more…: Joyce, Plunkett and Why We Should Name a Metro Station After The Brian Boru PubCome 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…
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From Stevedores to Life on Mars: U2, Bowie and The Dockers Pub.
Read more…: From Stevedores to Life on Mars: U2, Bowie and The Dockers Pub.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…
