FAIQ #6 Where Do You Drink in Dublin?
I drink in Kansas City.
[Update: This post was written in April 2006, over a year before I was to return to my native Dublin]
And it doesn’t matter anymore. When I go home to Dublin every year - e.g. for 5 weeks last autumn - I drink wherever my family and friends are. Unfortunately. Usually it means somewhere very big with enormous urns and ferns, all bathed in green light. I’m intending to change my family and friends.
On those visits home maybe I’ll go on the Luas (tram) and have a drink in Ranelagh, or go to Croker and stop off for a pint in Quinn’s, or if I’m really lucky persuade people to go to Toner’s, McDaid’s, etc., but I’d lose sight of Dublin if I was the one doing the persuading, so I mostly go where I’m told, and complain about it even if the bouncers do let me in these days (The bouncers didn’t used to let me in).
Whatever about where I say I drink, here is a list of exactly where I did drink in just the final 12 months before I moved to Kansas City, when it did matter. These 46 pubs are just where I drank in Dublin (I also consumed fine beer in Carlow, Kildare, Liverpool, Birmingham, Nottingham, Essex, Cumbria, France and the US in that last year):
• The 51
• The Long Hall
• O’Neill’s of Suffolk St
• Doheny & Nesbitt’s
• Scruffy Murphy’s
• O’Dwyer’s
• Bruxelles
• The Summit Inn
• The Pier House
• The Ha’penny Bridge Inn
• The Brazen Head
• Dunphy’s
• The Queen’s
• The Oval
• Rumm’s D4
• Walshe’s
• The Addison Lodge
• The Millmount House
• Ryan’s of Pargate St
• Judge Darley’s
• The Palace Bar
• Hedigan’s The Brian Boru
• Quinn’s (Botanic Ave)
• The Shakepeare
• Conway’s
• Fagan’s
• Kennedy’s
• The Palmerstown House
• The Bachelor Inn
• Handel’s
• Bellamy’s
• Paddy Cullens
• Kehoe’s
• McDaid’s
• Neary’s
• O’Mahoney’s Cross Guns
• The Magic Carpet
• McCormack’s
• The International Bar
• Bowe’s
• Toner’s
• The Mercantile Bar & Grill
• The Gravediggers
• Mulligans of Poolbeg St
• The Bridge Bar
• The Sackville Lounge
Some of these don’t exist any more, and some others should never have existed in the first place.
Looking at the list now I’m really surprised that in that year I didn’t make it to Beggar’s Bush, Hartigan’s, The Flowing Tide, The Anglers Rest, Cassidy’s, O’Brien’s, Slattery’s, The Goalpost, Keating’s, The Hole in the Wall, Clarke’s, Whelan’s, or The Stag’s Head. But hey, I was packing.
But then again I’m quite pleased to see I didn’t go to Break for the Border, The Hairy Lemon, The Long Stone, Messers Maguires, Zanzibar, The Barge, Copperface Jacks, Pravda, The Bleeding Horse, Hogan’s, Cafe-en-Seine, or MacTurcaills of Hoggen Green.
And so on.
UPDATE: In September 2007 after almost 8 and a half years in Kansas City I moved home to Dublin. And since I now drink in Dublin again this post is due for an appendix.
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