Famous Dublin pubs that are no more

L1011 · 11-08-2016 10:08am

Offaly Exile wrote: »

Apologies for referencing a two year old post but I just read this post.

Berminghams was a watering hole for Offaly GAA fans in the 70s 80s and 90s when we were going well. Many a night I fell out of it after a great Offaly win !

It certainly was not known for it's salubrious decor. It was owned by a tall Offaly man from Banagher named Jim Bermingham. Not sure if he has now passed on but if not he is a very old man.

Memories:)

My local rag has taken to reporting where licences came from in case of transfers/conversions done in the local court.

After the Mater Private bought Berminghams, they eventually sold the licence to Maxol Maynooth who converted it to an off-licence. So what was Berminghams is now a single fridge of beer in a petrol station, in some ways.

Pinch Flat · 11-08-2016 10:10am

buffalo wrote: »

Great article on the history of that spot here: https://comeheretome.com/2016/08/10/historic-dublin-pub-the-white-horse-now-a-starbucks-coffee-shop/

Great read on a great pub. Absolutely shameful it's a Starbucks now.....:(

BeerNut · 11-08-2016 10:27am

L1011 wrote: »

So what was Berminghams is now a single fridge of beer in a petrol station, in some ways.

Standard practice. Great to see it being reported though.

Chuchote · 11-08-2016 10:31am

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Great read on a great pub. Absolutely shameful it's a Starbucks now.....:(

Their day too shall pass.

Grahamer666 · 11-08-2016 3:22pm

Anyone mentioned The Chinaman on Stephens Street Upper?

Frank Grimes · 11-08-2016 10:54pm

Grahamer666 wrote: »

Anyone mentioned The Chinaman on Stephens Street Upper?

Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.

Big Nasty · 11-08-2016 10:56pm

Frank Grimes wrote: »

Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.

You're entering a world of pain Donnie.

Offaly Exile · 11-08-2016 11:20pm

I have fond memories of drinking in The Goalpost pub on Cathedral Street in the 1990's. It was run by a Tipperary man Paddy Kirwan and his sons. They were all well able to handle themselves and any bit of occasional trouble was dealt with very quickly.

Paddy ran a tab for his regulars. Many a civil servant and bods from the GPO would borrow say £50/£60 during the week and on pay day would settle up and the tab would start all over again. Great pint of Guinness which for years sold at £1.95 when everywhere else around it was over £2

Paddy got an offer he couldn't refuse and sold up in the early 2000's when it was bought by McGeogh's of Phibsboro fame and was renamed as Brannigan's.

This link which I found states incorrectly that when McGeough's took over the pub they renamed it as 'The Goalpost' - http://brannigansbar.ie/about-us/

That is simply not true as it was already called 'The Goalpost' before they bought it.

fleet_admiral · 11-08-2016 11:42pm

The Lantern in Harolds Cross is now Harolds Cross Pool Club

killbillvol2 · 12-08-2016 5:43am

Offaly Exile wrote: »

I have fond memories of drinking in The Goalpost pub on Cathedral Street in the 1990's. It was run by a Tipperary man Paddy Kirwan and his sons. They were all well able to handle themselves and any bit of occasional trouble was dealt with very quickly.

Paddy ran a tab for his regulars. Many a civil servant and bods from the GPO would borrow say 50/ 60 during the week and on pay day would settle up and the tab would start all over again. Great pint of Guinness which for years sold at 1.95 when everywhere else around it was over 2

Paddy got an offer he couldn't refuse and sold up in the early 2000's when it was bought by McGeogh's of Phibsboro fame and was renamed as Brannigan's.

This link which I found states incorrectly that when McGeough's took over the pub they renamed it as 'The Goalpost' - http://brannigansbar.ie/about-us/

That is simply not true as it was already called 'The Goalpost' before they bought it.

Correct. I'm pretty sure it was called the Goalpost in 1990. I remember watching England play Cameroon there leading to the immortal chant, "come on you blacks in green".

spurious · 12-08-2016 6:16am

killbillvol2 wrote:

Correct. I'm pretty sure it was called the Goalpost in 1990. I remember watching England play Cameroon there leading to the immortal chant, "come on you blacks in green".

Even before that I think. I finished a job in the area in 1990 and it was called that for at least a couple of years.

Dyr · 12-08-2016 8:39am

Frank Grimes wrote: »

Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.

The Chinaman is not the issue

Big Nasty · 12-08-2016 9:57am

Bambi wrote: »

The Chinaman is not the issue

Someone peeed on your rug Dude.

maximoose · 12-08-2016 11:29am

Anyone know what the story is with Murray's in Kilmainham?

Had a for sale sign go up a few months ago but still open as normal, closed a few weeks now though.

Buckfast W · 12-08-2016 2:25pm

Addison Lodge is still there pass it every week. Is Smyths in Fairview gone for good or just renovations?

Was passing by and there was a notice for planning and a bit of activity but now it seems to have dried up.

Also for the younger crowd the Players lounge and Barcode (may it rest in peace)

Also Campions beside me, worked there when I was 15 as lounge staff. Getting knocked down and turned into more bloody apartments. :mad:

L1011 · 12-08-2016 2:28pm

Buckfast W wrote: »

Addison Lodge is still there pass it every week. Is Smyths in Fairview gone for good or just renovations?

Was passing by and there was a notice for planning and a bit of activity but now it seems to have dried up.

Also for the younger crowd the Players lounge and Barcode (may it rest in peace)

Also Campions beside me, worked there when I was 15 as lounge staff. Getting knocked down and turned into more bloody apartments. :mad:

Smyths is meant to be being done up by Bru Brewery from Trim. Been closed for a while now.

Barcode is still licenced in the current licence register even though I don't even think the building is still there as was?

Buckfast W · 12-08-2016 3:02pm

L1011 wrote: »

Smyths is meant to be being done up by Bru Brewery from Trim. Been closed for a while now.

Barcode is still licenced in the current licence register even though I don't even think the building is still there as was?

Haven't a clue, haven't been in the place since it shut down, just remember that it was always dark no matter the time of day and that mad glass blocked wall that used to change colour. One thing that I saw there and nowhere else since was the bar taps. They didn't have a lever, the staff used to press a button and fill up your pint.

The hideout is long gone now and the sunset house has been renamed the Brendan Beehan and is under new management according to their sign, wonder why

Shint0 · 12-08-2016 6:15pm

Does anyone know what's happening with the old Playwright Inn in Blackrock? Did a summer there as a student years ago when it was in full swing. Passed by it not too long ago and not sure if there have been any developments with it since. I think it was the most expensive for a pint at one stage.

L1011 · 12-08-2016 6:22pm

Became a TGI Fridays then closed down some years after.

Was in the Brendan Behan earlier. It's still a dump.

BonnieSituation · 12-08-2016 9:40pm

Shint0 wrote: »

Does anyone know what's happening with the old Playwright Inn in Blackrock? Did a summer there as a student years ago when it was in full swing. Passed by it not too long ago and not sure if there have been any developments with it since. I think it was the most expensive for a pint at one stage.

Passed by it a couple of weeks ago and it's being developed into something.

L1011 wrote: »

Became a TGI Fridays then closed down some years after.

Was in the Brendan Behan earlier. It's still a dump.

It is a dump! But it's now a dump that smells of paint. Was in it before the matches last Saturday and had a great pint in it mind you.

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This thread is awful depressing as you read through it.

Gavin "shels" · 14-08-2016 11:51pm

Buckfast W wrote: »

Is Smyths in Fairview gone for good or just renovations?

Explains why I haven't seen them sponsor a Shels game this season.

Raven_k42 · 19-08-2016 3:26pm

Is Smyths anything to do with old Coles pub ?. When I was working in Fairview in late 70s...lads went to Gaffney's and the girls went to Cole's. Then all out to Saint's in Howth !!.

Any someone mentioned the Players Lounge...as in the Fairview Inn ??

odyssey06 · 19-08-2016 3:47pm

Raven_k42 wrote: »

Is Smyths anything to do with old Coles pub ?. When I was working in Fairview in late 70s...lads went to Gaffney's and the girls went to Cole's. Then all out to Saint's in Howth !!.

Yeah I think Coles became Smyths, and part of Coles was the Barony?

Any someone mentioned the Players Lounge...as in the Fairview Inn ??

Fairview Inn, became the Players Lounge, which has been boarded up since the burglary \ fire incident.

eisenberg1 · 19-08-2016 5:16pm

Raven_k42 wrote: »

Is Smyths anything to do with old Coles pub ?. When I was working in Fairview in late 70s...lads went to Gaffney's and the girls went to Cole's. Then all out to Saint's in Howth !!.

Any someone mentioned the Players Lounge...as in the Fairview Inn ??

Smiths used to Coles, same place.

Dalcassian · 23-08-2016 4:30pm

Hi to all you pub fans!
I am exhibiting photographs I took of Dublin Public Houses during the 1980s at this year’s Peoples Photographic Exhibition on the 27th / 28th August on St Stephens Green. Many of these pubs have either disappeared completely while others have changed over the years. Among those on display could be your very own favourite pub as it was back in the 1980s.
My location will be on the East side of St Stephen’s Green at space number E20. I will be there on both days so please do come along and enjoy the show. Joe O’Brien.

uch · 23-08-2016 4:33pm

Here's a great link on council website for Dublin Bars, probably posted before but what harm

http://www.dublincity.ie/library-galleries1/181

Hootanany · 23-08-2016 8:49pm

Dalcassian wrote: »

Hi to all you pub fans!
I am exhibiting photographs I took of Dublin Public Houses during the 1980s at this year’s Peoples Photographic Exhibition on the 27th / 28th August on St Stephens Green. Many of these pubs have either disappeared completely while others have changed over the years. Among those on display could be your very own favourite pub as it was back in the 1980s.
My location will be on the East side of St Stephen’s Green at space number E20. I will be there on both days so please do come along and enjoy the show. Joe O’Brien.

I Hope The Honeypot is in there.

BonnieSituation · 23-08-2016 9:19pm

uch wrote: »

Here's a great link on council website for Dublin Bars, probably posted before but what harm

http://www.dublincity.ie/library-galleries1/181

I found that inadvertently a few months ago. It's an unbelievable resource.

L1011 · 23-08-2016 9:29pm

Even with a fair few of those still open (or renamed and open) you realise how many pubs have gone in the past decades.

Theres around 1000 "pubs" left in Dublin County - counting every hotel bar but not sports clubs - when I've seen figures of 1400 in the city alone in the past. Being able to convert a pub licence to an offo has had a huge impact.

Knine · 23-08-2016 10:34pm

Fibbers
The Bridge
The Royal Oak Finglas
The System ( Nightclub but loved that place)

Is Club M still going? I remember those Laser Light Shows lol

Gavin "shels" · 23-08-2016 11:46pm

Knine wrote: »

Is Club M still going? I remember those Laser Light Shows lol

It is indeed, was there for my sins a year ago and it was nearly all hens and stags.

Triboro · 24-08-2016 6:54am

Frequented a pub called The lough and quay in Clondalkin in the 80's, wonderin is it still there?

BonnieSituation · 24-08-2016 1:34pm

Triboro wrote: »

Frequented a pub called The lough and quay in Clondalkin in the 80's, wonderin is it still there?

Nope. The building it was in was demolished. Pub that's there now is called the Waterside.

Been there a good while now.

Cienciano · 24-08-2016 5:21pm

Knine wrote: »

Fibbers
The Bridge
The Royal Oak Finglas
The System ( Nightclub but loved that place)

Is Club M still going? I remember those Laser Light Shows lol

Fibbers is still going.

Big Nasty · 24-08-2016 7:05pm

Cienciano wrote: »

Fibbers is still going.

There was a second one on the quays owned by the same group.

BonnieSituation · 24-08-2016 7:13pm

Big Nasty wrote: »

There was a second one on the quays owned by the same group.

Gone a few years too. Was previously a cafe bar called the "The Blue Duck" and a gay bar called "Out on the Liffey".

My old bus stop was outside and for the life of me I can't remember what the pub was originally called.

jippo nolan · 24-08-2016 7:14pm

Triboro wrote: »

Frequented a pub called The lough and quay in Clondalkin in the 80's, wonderin is it still there?

Did you leave with a full set of teeth?

Triboro · 24-08-2016 10:26pm

jippo nolan wrote: »

Did you leave with a full set of teeth?

Indeed I did!
Never thought it was too bad but that was back in the rookie years.

eisenberg1 · 26-08-2016 4:36pm

TheBlock wrote: »

A couple I used to frequent in the 80's 90's in the south inner city...

The Magnet - Pearse Steet was a great early shop with a mixture of Locals, Dockers, Postmen and Ringsends hiding. Great for a game of Pool changed it's name to the Widow Scanlons and then became a spar which closed. Terrible waste.

Kelly's on John Rogersons Quay - Right beside the Gasometer another one full of dockers and messers. Used to be frequented by the travellers that camped on Misery Hill. Great spot, I remember mister Kelly ****ing the telly in the liffey when an argument broke out about what was to be watched and this was when telly where expensive. Used to let his massive alsatian roam around the bar and scare the ****e out of everyone.

Conattys in City Quay another great pub form a pint on the way down to Kelly's after collecting the scartcher in Tara street back in the 80's.

I was in Kelly's a couple of times. And I was told he tore the public phone off the wall and threw it through the window after some guy asked him for change.

Dalcassian · 23-12-2016 12:34pm

Hi all, I'm back again looking for information on another long gone public house. It was situated along the south bank of the canal going east from Harold's Cross Bridge. I think it was called "The Grove". It was the last building before Cathal Bruagh Barracks and was actually built against the wall of the barracks. It sat a bit back from the road.
I would love to see any photos of it.
Hoping for help here.
Joe

dd972 · 23-12-2016 9:06pm

Was there a pub called Tommy Wrights where Sweetmans is now on Burgh Quay and another pub opposite on the Northside that got turned into an Indian restaurant.

I remember The Shakespeare on Parnell St as well.

Spanish Eyes · 23-12-2016 9:21pm

Anyone from the area remember this pub?

It has been closed for donkeys years, but with all the lovely apartments close by now, maybe they were holding out for a deal or something.

I don't think I've seen a premises closed for so long.... maybe ten years or so?

The Black and Amber in Islandbridge.

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.3466656,-6.3082463,3a,75y,130.23h,85.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s04IZymjnPq289sSYGiCa_Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

Big Nasty · 23-12-2016 10:10pm

dd972 wrote: »

Was there a pub called Tommy Wrights where Sweetmans is now on Burgh Quay and another pub opposite on the Northside that got turned into an Indian restaurant.

I remember The Shakespeare on Parnell St as well.

Most definitely. Had my first Guinness in Tommy Wrights. Think I was 15 or at most 16. Haven't looked back! :pac:

Speedsie · 23-12-2016 10:17pm

Dalcassian wrote: »

Hi all, I'm back again looking for information on another long gone public house. It was situated along the south bank of the canal going east from Harold's Cross Bridge. I think it was called "The Grove". It was the last building before Cathal Bruagh Barracks and was actually built against the wall of the barracks. It sat a bit back from the road.
I would love to see any photos of it.
Hoping for help here.
Joe

Ah yes, the Grove, remember it well, no pics though. Demolished about 10 years ago, and a block of flats built on the site.

The flying mouse · 23-12-2016 10:34pm

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Anyone from the area remember this pub?

It has been closed for donkeys years, but with all the lovely apartments close by now, maybe they were holding out for a deal or something.

I don't think I've seen a premises closed for so long.... maybe ten years or so?

The Black and Amber in Islandbridge.

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.3466656,-6.3082463,3a,75y,130.23h,85.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s04IZymjnPq289sSYGiCa_Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

I am so old I remember when it was open, When the owner wanted to, think it closed down early eighties ??

Spanish Eyes · 23-12-2016 11:00pm

The flying mouse wrote: »

I am so old I remember when it was open, When the owner wanted to, think it closed down early eighties ??

You could be right, I was only in it once, but I pass it by every day. Still amazed it's there. Must be holding on to the site or something like that.

That area is very short on pubs with all the development going on. I'm talking walking distance here. OK there is the new hotel and the Patriots up the road.

Ryans in Parkgate is still going strong, although I hate all the tv's everywhere in there now.

Esel · 23-12-2016 11:37pm

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Ryans in Parkgate is still going strong, although I hate all the tv's everywhere in there now.

Anyone remember Mr. Ryan himself? Nicknamed Bongo, but not too his face! Great ham sandwiches back in the day, made to order. No other food though. Great snugs too. Are they still there?

irishbuzz · 23-12-2016 11:47pm

Snugs are still there alright.

Place is a lot more food orientated now – part of an FXBs with a restaurant upstairs – but still a lovely pub. Agree with previous poster about the TVs. They're too highly placed anyway to even be of use so better off without them.

Nancy Hands just up past it is another fine establishment too.

Dodge · 24-12-2016 1:41am

The flying mouse wrote: »

I am so old I remember when it was open, When the owner wanted to, think it closed down early eighties ??

Think it was open in the 90s, even if early 90s

The pub scenes in 'I Went Down' were filmed there

sheepondrugs · 24-12-2016 11:28am

Does anyone remember the name of the pub at the 12th lock at grand canal( near lucan sarsfields GAA club)?
Also nearby were Polly Hops and McEvoys in Newcastle, both of which burnt down iirc

Famous Dublin pubs that are no more

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