Sponsored by: Home Registration Programme Venue Accommodation Sightseeing -- History -- Pubs -- Shopping -- Links Rules Contact Contact us at: riniwa@iworg.com	Sightseeing -> Dublin Pubs The classic Dublin pub is a Victorian creation, frozen in time due to a lack of economic development for most of the 20th century. This means of course that they are now a dying breed, being wiped out by the "Superpubs" of the 1990s and the general need (greed?) to squeeze as many punters as possible into characterless drinking barns in the city centre. Here's a few I like, they tend towards having good Guinness, old world charm and (being honest) plenty of dirt. Most of them aren't that close to the venue but I'm from the Southside of the city and from birth Dubliners generally don't like to cross the river... [Click here for a map showing pub locations(120kb)] The Flowing Tide - 9 Abbey Sreet Lower Dublin 1 Dublin. Phone:+353 1 8740842 One of relatively few family owned pubs in Dublin city centre. Downstairs in the "Neptune Bar" has a studenty feel. Used to feature a drunken priest but I think he's gone now. Pleasently surly staff. The Long Hall - 51 Great Georges Street South Dublin 2 Dublin. Phone:+353 1 4751590 classic Dublin pub, dark despite lots of mirrors, great guinness, no music. Often packed to the gills with a very mixed crowd (locals, students, business types). The Stags Head - 1 Dame Court Dublin 2 Dublin. Phone:+353 1 6793701 Classic Dublin pub, great guinness, no music. Generally standing room only. Don't make the mistake of going downstairs (unless you're looking for the toilets). The Brazen Head - 20 Lower Bridge St. One of the claimants to thedisputed title of oldest pub in Dublin. Unfortunately a bit touristy but it still has a certain appealing disorder. The Sackville Lounge - Sackville Place, Off O'Connell Street. Tiny pub, more like a converted sitting room. Old-style staff (+toilet facilities!). Favoured by the cast of Abbey plays for an after-work tipple. Toners - 139 Lower Baggot Street Dublin 2 Dublin. Phone:+353 1 6763090 classic Dublin pub, dark, lots of cubby holes for secret drinkers. The Gravediggers (Kavanagh's) - 1 Prospect Square, Glasnevin, Dublin 9. A bit out of town but if you go to the bar it still has sawdust on the floor, dirty big pints of Guinness and locals that will scowl at you. The Ha'penny Bridge Inn - 42 Wellington Quay. An island of old Dublin in the sea of Temple Bar commercialism. The Palace - 21 Fleet Street (Temple Bar) Classic Dublin pub, better off on the ground floor rather than upstairs (which are way too steep when you've had a few anyway). The White Horse - Georges Quay , Dublin Actually I don't like this place but it is an example of an "Early House", i.e. somewhere that opens at 7.30 am as a historical quirk of our licensing laws. The Porterhouse - 16-18 Parliament Street Dublin 2 tel: (+ 353 1) 671 5715. A micro-brewery, also has a large selection of imported beers. Fairly mainstream apart from that (and prone to having loud live music at inappropriate times). Brogans - pretty good city centre pub with a very mixed crowd. Mulligans - 8 Poolbeg Street Dublin 2 Dublin. Phone:+353 1 6775582 Great guinness and atmosphere with traditional decor and old-style toilets. Supposedly favoured by journalists. Hard to find, but it'll be worth it. Bruxelles - Harry Street Dublin 2 Ph: 01-6775362. Downstairs is a rock bar with large jukebox. Isoldes Tower - Temple Bar Dublin 2 Dublin. Phone:+353 1 6711535 Once again not somewhere I'd say I like, but it does seem to always be open which is useful when looking for a drink in the early hours AM. The Bank - converted Victorian bank with great decor, gets a bit noisy though. The Market Bar - Fade Street, Dublin 2. An example of post-smoking ban pub architecture, there is a large roofed area which is legally "outside" so you can smoke but which is heated and supplied with tables/seating. OK thats my selection, here is a fairly comprehensive Dublin pub website. (Where you will find, for example, the five pubs called Madigans in Dublin...none of which are recommended!)
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