Name Those Pubs

57 thoughts on “Name Those Pubs”

1. Hairy Lemon?

   • The hairy lemon didn’t exist in 1975. It was the William Tell c early ’90s – not sure about before that.

     • When I drank there in the 80′s it was called “The Pygmalion”…

2. Neary’s (actors, dahling), Peter’s Pub, The Clarendon, The Last Stand. Eh, Maybe they thought Brown Thomas was a pub, in which case they can’t be faulted for thinking it was a gay bar.

   • It would have been Switzer’s back in the day. Ahhh… Switzer’s….

     • Do you mean The Old Stand? I think it was Custer who had the Last Stand?

       • Yes, yes I do! I always get that wrong.

         • Good stuff!!

   • The Bailys was a bar attached to BTs, when BT’s was where M&S is

   • He, he, a brown Thomas, class!

3. The bailey was one

4. Bartleys / hairy lemon / nearys / the bailey / ?????

5. The Bailey? The Duke?

6. My mother always maintains that Peter’s Pub was a gay bar- never had to queue for the ladies room

   • Not because of her lack of success with the fellas?

     • harshhhh

     • Well if we’re talking to her son, she’s obviously had some success in that respect.

       • One word: Adoption.

         • Don’t exclude miraculous birth. A sprightly water baby with rose petal cheeks and blue eyes, plucked from under a cluster of dew soaked rhubarb stalks.

   • J.J Smyths, there was no ladies room ha ha

     • Ha ha. Paying customers nowhere to urinate. Ha ha. Discrimination based on gender. Ha ha.

       • J.J got a its first ladies room some time in the 90′s

7. The Swan?

   • How big was the grafton street area back in the 70′s?

     • it extended as far as Dublin 8.

8. Upstairs in Doheny and Nesbitt’s

9. Peter’s pub has to be one.
   ‘Most people regard it as a bit of a laugh’. Great line.

   • They’ll grow out of it after a few years.

10. The son of the previous owners of Peter’s are now the owners of the M1 (Or what is left of it).

    I must ask him when I see him next about this, he was born in the upstairs room of Peters and it may give him a good chuckle.

    The Bar Staff in that catchment area regularly refer to it as the village due to its close knit ties between the business and their staff.

11. Bartley Dunnes

12. The George

13. 1975….There were two pubs near where Synnotts is now at the Stephens Green Centre. One was Barkley Dunnes and I am pretty sure it was gay on a Tuesday night or something back in the day. Can’t remember the other one now….

    • Rices – was where entrance to Stephen’s Green Centre is now

14. Defo The Bailey.

    On the topic of gay pub history, this is an interesting piece from CHTM on The Viking, Dame St.

    http://comeheretome.com/2012/02/09/the-viking-on-dame-street-dublins-first-gay-bar/

    • That was interesting, thanks!

    • Comments on that post are really interesting (and quite sad). Portrait of gay Dublin in the 80s. A hard place to be by the sounds of it.

      • Jaysus those comments are pretty grim alright.

    • Thanks for the link.

      We actually posted the OP image back in September:

      https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151058203296693&set=pb.239469766692.-2207520000.1352481114&type=3&theater

15. The Dåil Bar
    Buswells
    Bartley Dunnes

16. Rices (corner of St King St), Bartly Dunnes and The George all had that reputation. The Baily is a possible suspect but I don’t remember it as being particularly gay.

    • Comment from links above:
      “The Viking was tiny and very poserish as I remember it from my one visit in 1985. Like a gay version of The Bailey!”

17. Bartley Dunnes
    The Pygmalion (now the Hairy Lemon)
    Rices (Located at corner of Stephens Green and South King Street, later demolished to build the Stephens Green Centre)
    Davy Byrnes

18. Zings of South William Street
    Hay on Exchequer Street
    The Workmans Club

19. The Shag’s Head

    • you mean The Slags Bed

20. Upstairs in the Bailey used be the gay hangout – hence the confusion.

    Rice’s I remember as well as The George (not quite Grafton St).

    There used be somewhere at the back of the Powerscourt House and (probably later than 1975) a club in what is now Ely – the downstairs part if I remember correctly

21. The Templeogue Inn.

22. The Blue Oyster Bar

23. The Players Lounge, Fairview is a big gay hangout.

    • No Queens allowed in the Players Lounge!

      http://www.sceala.com/phpBB2/irish-forums-25390.html

24. The second quote is from Bartley Dunne himself. He said the same thing in an interview published before the pub closed for good, having made a FORTUNE out of homos. In fairness, the place was pretty atmospheric.

25. The Dame Tavern Had two Gay Owners, prior to the current owner, and was a bit Gay

    • What’s a “bit gay”. Did he have gay hearing? Or maybe just a bit gay on Tuesdays and holy days of obligation?

26. The one in powerscourt was called Hooray Henry’s. an actual gay venue.

27. there was no homosexuality back then

28. JJ Smyth’s used to have a lesbian night upstairs back in the day.

29. The Old Chinaman – maybe not…..