Dublin By Pub – Words, images and news from the pubs of Dublin.

Becky Morgan’s: Grand Canal Street Lower

January… It’s tough going! The dark misery of winter’s icy grasp persists, and the anti-climax of Christmas’s end kicks in. Advertising media reminds you of the upheaval you’ve caused to…
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Brannigan’s: Cathedral St.

Sitting in the shadows of the Pro-Cathedral and just off the main thoroughfare of O’Connell St. lies a boozer by the name of Brannigan’s. The pub, which is named after…
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Devitt’s: Camden St.

I wonder if you’ve ever found yourself, at some stage in your life, completely contradicting values that you hold dear for no other good reason than gut reaction? This happened…
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Shanahan’s The Coombe

It’s fair to say that we’re fond of drinking in The Liberties; we find that having a pint there tends to make us suburban dwellers feel more authentically Dublin. That…
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Tommy O Gara’s: Stoneybatter

One of the best things about Dublin City from the perspective of three trainee pintmen is the layout of pubs across the city. The convenient proliferation of drinking establishments along…
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Briody’s: Marlborough St.

It’s funny how places can become romanticised in your head sometimes. Take Marlborough Street, for example – the street which is freshly paved with new tram tracks and ready to…
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L. Mulligan Grocer: Stoneybatter.

We’ve been thinking for a while now about what we’d say when we penned our thoughts on L Mulligan Grocer. After some discussion, we loosely came to agree that the…
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The Cobblestone: King St.

Brendan Behan famously once described himself as a drinker with writing problems – this is something that one would assume the person who set out to describe The Cobblestone was…
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The Confession Box: Marlborough St

To this day, I still remember the trepidation- the knot growing more intense in the pit of my stomach as the queue of would-be confessors grew worryingly shorter. The mostly…
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O Reilly’s: Tara St. Station.

O Reilly’s is a controversial one here at DBP. I dare say that there are few or no other pubs in the city that polarise the opinions of myself and…
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