Mar 29, 2022
The pub and the pen have always gone hand in hand, especially in Dublin. That’s why the city is so celebrated for its playwrights and poets and authors from Jonathan Swift to Oscar Wilde to Flann O’Brien to Sally Rooney. That’s why Dublin is a UNESCO City...
Mar 11, 2022
‘Delightful’ says The Irish Times. ‘Fascinating’ concurred the Independent-on-Sunday. ‘A brilliant history of the Irish pub’ declared Country Life. ‘A masterpiece of pub porn’ said the Sunday Independent. Turtle’s...
Mar 10, 2022
The oldest licensed premises in Belfast is also one of its most alluring. The pub was a meeting place for the United Irishmen in the run up to the disastrous rebellion of 1798. It is still easy to imagine such characters plotting revolution here over dark ales and...
Mar 10, 2022
Like so many of Dingle’s fine pubs, Curran’s has always doubled as a general merchant. ‘They sold everything long ago’, says James Curran, pulling out one of the old ledger books. Sue enough, the ledgers are stuffed with billheads from all manner of harness-maker,...
Mar 10, 2022
One of the last of the great Victorian Gin Palaces that once flourished in the industrial cities of Britain, this landmark establishment originally serviced the six stagecoaches and various jaunting cars passing daily from Belfast to Lisburn. Become a member of...
