dublin: top three*
01. Sundays in Phoenix Park02. gigs at The Olympia03. Trinity Ball
dublin: bottom three
01. Dublin Bus02. ridiculously short days in the dead of winter03. classic gigs at The Point rendered dud b/c of worst venue acoustics in showbiz
*honorable mention: McSorley's Pub in Ranelagh
― moo-town slackers (Pillbox), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 11:59 (twelve years ago) link
McSorley's? Oh dear, I think not.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
dublin top three
1. Porterhouse/Czech Inn conveniently across from each other2. Bruxelles/McDaids conveniently across from each other3. Dawson St
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 12:32 (twelve years ago) link
Porterhouse otm. The food's good too.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
Porterhouse is quite good, but it seems to be always full and has a lot of lamer music on in it. I think basically that the one on Parliament Street is a bit too much for tourists (not that I have anything against tourists etc.).
Against the Grain is a pleasant spot - nice beer, nice food.
The Hop House on Parnell Street is great for Korean and (possibly) Japanese food.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
porterhouse a touch for the yanks alright
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
Dublin Bus is decent now they have the real-time update thingy. Very handy
― Number None, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
2. Bruxelles/McDaids conveniently across from each other
OTM
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
McSorley's? Oh dear, I think not.― The New Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, November 15, 2011 7:23 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark
― The New Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, November 15, 2011 7:23 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark
For me, its classic status probably has much to do w/ the fact that it was a neighborhood spot & thus my primary craic house. See also: Slattery in Rathmines
One neat gimmick w/ McSorley's is that it doubles as museum of 19th Century pharmacy - appropriate for boozing!
― moo-town slackers (Pillbox), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
Is Porterhouse a multi-level brewpub w/ a number of nookish taprooms, not far from Temple Bar iirc? If so, yeah that place is great!
It is basically an American-style microbrew outpost, but they elude novelty status by doing a very good job of it! (at least they did circa-2001)
― moo-town slackers (Pillbox), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
that's the place
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
Porterhouse has a number of branches now, there's one in Phibsboro and another off Nassau Street. The amount of choice tends to interfere with my simple desire to get drunk though
― Number None, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
There's even a Porterhouse in London. The original is in Bray, beloved town of my school years.
― fun drive (seandalai), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
I thought one of these Porterhouses, where I went with the Vicar years ago, was more like Pearse Street
what's special about Dawson Street?
The Vicar showed me a coffee place that looked bland on the outside but did a tremendous cappucino
Good thing about Dublin: Joyce's commonplace book c. 1902 digitally readable at NLI exhibit, 2011
another: the Swiss Embassy which is on a street of embassies, near Ballsbridge, that I never knew existed till the Vicar and I arrived there in a taxi one clear early evening this summer
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
places I have not been:
Phoenix Park ChapelizodHeuston StationCastleknockthe Famine Ship exhibit (seems a bit spooky tbh) and other things east down the modernized Liffey
otherwise I have been to quite a lot of places, in Dublin.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
the new dirty vicar of bray <-- i am too tired to make the actual joke here, perhaps you can assemble the parts yourself and think of me as you lol
― mark s, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
Nassau Street Porterhouse would be the nearest one to Pearse Street pinefox
― Number None, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
Only thing I cared about on Dawson Street was the bookshops and there's only one now :(
― Number None, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
murder inc rip
Dawson st's just a nice one to wander, i find. Coffeehouses and upscale gent's outfitters and ok bookshops are gone but i remember them fondly
Porterhouse to which i refer is at the west end of temple bar area.
There's a great run of embassies around wellington rd in ballsbridge
Phoenix park is nice, and enormous
Heuston is like a railed port for famine ships bringin the hopeless back west, you'll always meet a fella there you know 'from before'
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
there is a porterhouse in westport now, while we're logging them.
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
This is probably the emigrant in me speaking, but by far my favourite thing about Dublin is simply "being in Dublin".
If I had to make a top three:
- Running in the Phoenix Park- Grogan's on Castle Street (not a regular haunt of mine but quite special)- TCD Front Square late at night (so peaceful it barely feels like you're in a city at all) and at dawn
― fun drive (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure anyone needs to see Chapelizod before they die ime.
― fun drive (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
it's best imagined using phonetic prophecy
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
last time i was home my friends took me to crackbird on south william st, which is a sort of pop up fried chicken place, good fun and a good atmosphere. may contain irish version of hipsters.
bar-wise i'm fairly out of the loop but georges street has many of the best imo, or if you go further south from there there are some good pubs a lot of the way along.
― When a German communicates, you listen (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I mainly frequent the hipstery bars so i'm keeping quiet on that score. Not a hipster though I swear
― Number None, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 00:58 (twelve years ago) link
what are the hipstery bars? i tend to go to the bernard shaw just cos i used to dj with bodytonic so i am always likely to meet some of the old pals there, that and they sell decent beer.
― When a German communicates, you listen (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
Hipstery bars of my time (1999-2001): Modern Green Bar, Hogan's
― moo-town slackers (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
The Shaw, Pygmalion, Twisted Pepper. Generally at the Bodytonic spots just cause they book good people
― Number None, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
Whelan's, depending on who was playing
― moo-town slackers (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
Whelans is hipstery to an extent but it's just too much of an institution now
― Number None, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
I recall a dance club, not so noteworthy on its own, but which hosted a weekly DJ set consisting of 80s/early-90s indie, shoegaze, space rock & such.. That was always a reliably great night out & hipster central full-stop.
― moo-town slackers (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
idk i dont like dublin that much, i guess i would probably say top three douglas hyde gallery, the luas, and getting late coffee on south williams street, which i guess makes me super boring
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
I would like to add to the top of my bottom three: Registering w/ the Garda - the fucking worst!
― moo-town slackers (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
Ronan will sort that one out for you.
― fun drive (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
Best part of living in Dublin for me, as someone who goes to a lot of gigs, is simply having access to a wider variety of live music. Like i lived in Galway for years and it was always immensely frustrating having to travel to Dublin or miss out. Galway has actually gotten a lot better in that respect in recent years though, basically since i left
― Number None, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
pub wise I have had some of my best times in the Lord Edward
also the Stag's HeadO'Neill's, granted it's a sprawland Nealon's which was once the Vicar's localin fact that pub on or near Camden Street which was the Vicar's local later on was also good
went to Guinness Brewery with Lara Byrne once, that was a good time
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
All those pubs are solid choices. To be honest, when I lived in Dublin I went to Doyle's more than anywhere else (lol student) so I still have a lot of affection for there even if it's pretty unexceptional.
― fun drive (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
doyle's is a fixture alright
What's the place opposite, or close to opposite dublin castle? Thomas read's? Good pub.
― ₪_₪ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
and Nealon's which was once the Vicar's local
still possibly the pub I go to the most, as SF book club always ends up there.
in fact that pub on or near Camden Street which was the Vicar's local later on was also good
this is Devitts, a nice old man / local pub (ie not for hipsters, except to extent that I am a hipster). I don't go there much now as it is not so near me (and sad old vicar does not go to pubs so much anymore either).
Rathmines really is a desert for decent pubs.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
Just read the new answers now. Glad to see the ILX hivemind subconsciously directed me to the Porterhouse last night (staying directly opposite). Good food and beer. Just walking back from the gaol now - definitely worth a trip. Is the Guinness Storehouse any cop? A bit put off by the fact it's not actually a brewery tour. Oh, if anyone's up for a pint Sunday, or indeed tonight, I'm in town.
― Franz Kappa (S-), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
Honourable mention for the Chester Beatty Library, by far my favourite museum in Dublin (since they closed the crazy Victorian-science Natural History Museum anyway).
― fun drive (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
Storehouse is a bit weak imo. View from the top is nice though
― Number None, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
The Natural History Museum (aka the Dead Animal Zoo) is open again, huzzah.
Yeah, the Chester Beatty is a gem. I wuv the cafe there.
Mr Kappa - Guinness Storehouse is a huge building and you get a great view of Dublin from the top. I've never done the tour but I was there for an event once. If you like views and industrial architecture it is worth visiting. If you were living the tourist dream you could do it as the first part of a triple header followed by the Irish Museum of Modern Art (in the olde Royal Hospital Kilmainham) and Kilmainham Gaol (where our dead patriots were killed by the evil foreigner).
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
Chester Beatty library is stunning. So much interesting stuff.
The Kilmainham tour is definitely worth doing as well.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
i'm djing at mother in copper alley on saturday btw...dubliners.
― When a German communicates, you listen (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
The gaol tour was worth doing. It's the prison from The Italian Job! The storehouse was pretty shite though, interesting how they set it up, but the whole thing was just a giant advert. Decent view but it was already dark. The screens where you can watch the vintage Guinness TV ads were good though.
― Franz Kappa (S-), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
I think a lot of film scenes were done in Kilmainham, probably because it is one of few oldschool jail-like buildings that are not in use as a jail.
mmm, slightly less films than I thought, but they include THE FACE OF FU MANCHU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilmainham_Jail#Films
― The New Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 17 November 2011 10:25 (twelve years ago) link
BAH! I always forget to put links on a separate line, as a way of avoiding the horror that is Full Justification.
The reason is that the guys wanting to restore the gaol had no money and hiring it out to film crews was the only way they could raise the cash!
― Franz Kappa (S-), Thursday, 17 November 2011 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
dmac in dublin is 'a thing'
aside from becoming an urbanite wretch of the highest and totally selling out my heretofore begrudging stony grey soil of mayo disavowal of all things east of tarmonbarry, i'm quite looking fwd to a few years amongst the enemy.
Aside from evening courses, five a side at ucd, boardsdeals-funded meals out, long and brisk walks around muggers and heroin-users along the canal, and three hours on the 16a from the centre to terenure, any clues from the locals as to what to expect?
Bear in mind that i'm in the bottom 5% of ilxors as rated by culture, though as to whether that's been environmentally-stymied thus far or not is open to (short and bad-natured) debate.
― steep? that's where i'm off hiking (darraghmac), Monday, 27 February 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
Second Dun Laoighaire, get an ice cream from Teddy’s and eat it in front of her.
― gyac, Monday, 13 May 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
ya a grand day out
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Monday, 13 May 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
darragh, not quite sure exactly what me and my very drunk baby are gonna be up to quite yet but it’d be great to say hi if you’re around late afternoon tomorrow or weds? no worries if not, it’s pretty short notice after all
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 13 May 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
i wouldn't recommend portmarnock but then i'm a malahide man so it's basically shelbyville.
it isn't v nice tho really? like it is pleasant suburbia but the town is fairly depressed apart from the beach i guess, when there aren't pitched battles between roving gangs. i would rep for malahide if you want beach plus town. or howth maybe above either.
i don't think i've ever set foot in dun laoghaire. i often think if i lived in dublin again i would see more of it.
― FernandoHierro, Monday, 13 May 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
have driven through obv.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7umHnB0DtoU
actually here you go - sorted
― FernandoHierro, Monday, 13 May 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
still haven't gone on the Ghost Bus :(
Wouldn't venture north of Connolly Station myself but it is a nice beach
― Number None, Monday, 13 May 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
would return for a Ghost Bus FAP
― seandalai, Monday, 13 May 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link
generation apparition
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Monday, 13 May 2019 23:15 (four years ago) link
i met dmac ffs
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 13:33 (four years ago) link
the man knows where to find a damn good chicken sandwich tbh
scored a fowl
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/02/10/19/11/thumbs-up-2056022_960_720.jpg
― Doctor Nu (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
i felt a twinge of guilt about berating him about his opinions on black panther after his impeccable hospitality but y’know it had to be done and anyway i’d crossed a sea i wasn’t gonna miss my chance
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
Top work lads.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
When you say chicken sandwich, please tell me you meant chicken roll?
― gyac, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
*chicken fillet roll
― Number None, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
i’d characterise it more as a roll than a sandwich, yeah
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
it was a chicken club on an onion bap
philistine, dunno why i bothered
he had a right go about black panther but it was background noise i was talkin to a cute blonde at the time
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
can confirm that "the one north of manhattan" also known as "the one spiderman attended" is indeed columbia fyi
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/GgL288OGdmkGA/giphy.gif
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Tuesday, May 14, 2019 7:23 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
except it's in the north of manhattan, not north of manhattan
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
everything's relative smartass
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
look just as long as we can all agree that it’s the alma mater of peter parker, the amazing spider-man
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
yeah i was hardly off by miles
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
i got sunburned btw, thanks for nothing dublin
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
actually, Peter Parker attended "Empire State University" in the comics
― Number None, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
an why you be like that
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLA67dbBLAc
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
they were puns about miles morales and nyu
― daenerys baker (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
Any suggestions of particularly good pubs within about a 15 minute walk of Trinity College?
― toby, Sunday, 28 July 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
that's pretty much all of them!
but more specifically, The Long Hall (Georges Street), Mulligans (Poolbeg Street), Grogans (South William Street)
― Number None, Sunday, 28 July 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
Thanks! Yeah I don’t have my head around the distances yet, I suspect everything is closer than it looks on a map.
― toby, Sunday, 28 July 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
I used to like O’Neills in Suffolk St but haven’t been there in about 10 years.
― gyac, Sunday, 28 July 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
everything is walkable.
the whiskey bar beside/adjoining porterhouse nassau st is good for whiskey
upstairs at rustic stone for cocktails
upstairs at central hotel for sherlock holmesy ambience
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 July 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/06/how-rentier-capitalism-is-destroying-dublin
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/02/dublin-bus-station-busaras-modernism-architecture
BUSARAS
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:19 (two years ago) link
all my Busáras memories involve being cold
― Vangelis fleadh (seandalai), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link