FAIQ #6 Where Do You Drink in Dublin?

I drink in Kansas City.

And it doesn't matter anymore. When I go home to Dublin every year - for five weeks last autumn for example - I drink wherever my family and friends are. 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.

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.

Whatever about where I say I drink, here is exactly where I did drink in just the last 12 months before moving to Kansas City, when it did matter. Just in Dublin that is (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 surprised I didn't make it to Cafe-en-Seine, 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, The Stag's Head, or Zanzibar. But hey, I was packing.

But then again I'm pleased to see I didn't go to Break for the Border, The Hairy Lemon, The Long Stone, Messers Maguires, The Barge, Copperface Jacks, Pravda, The Bleeding Horse, Hogan's, or MacTurcaills of Hoggen Green.

And so on.

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