It’s with heavy hearts that we announce the end of our Bernard Shaw adventure. At the end of October 2019 we will close the Shaw, Eatyard, all organisational, art and performance spaces and everything else in the building and yards – for good.https://t.co/CGDpyluYIv
— The Bernard Shaw (@TheBernardShaw) September 9, 2019
This afternoon.
Richmond Street South, Dublin 2.
Via Shaw & Shoddytonic Crew
We’ve tried really hard over the last few months to renew the lease, stay on longer, or buy the place. A lot of things didn’t go our way over the last 12 months either, but it’s out of our hands now unfortunately.
…Dublin is changing, we can all see and feel it but we are going nowhere & we won’t go down without a fight. We’ll start something else, somewhere else [ plans are afoot ] , and keep fighting the good fight.
There are so many young creative, clever, smart people in Dublin & Ireland at the moment – there’s lots to be optimistic about – but they need the spaces to meet each other, make plans, and make them happen!
We’ll have more info, lineups, events, wakes, next steps out over the next few days & weeks…. until the end of October we’re open as normal, we’re ready for y’all and we’re gonna party like its….2019!
It is with heavy heart… (Bernard Shaw)
The Bernard Shaw and Eatyard Are To Close On October 31 (Golden Plec)
Meanwhile…
Bernard Shaw closing as Wetherspoons opens up the road. Varadkar gets publicity with LCD Soundsystem and Kylie while this is the reality. For all the shite talk Fine Gael don't give a fuck about " local entrepreneurship" and people sneered at the slogan, 'take back the city'….
— Oireachtas Retort (@Oireachtas_RX) September 9, 2019
Meanwhile…
I assume Dublin City Council's current strategy of turning Dublin into an anonymous Northern UK town bombed during WW2 is to ensure stag/hen party tourists from those towns aren't scared off by anything novel.
— Doctor Neutopia (@oceanclub) September 9, 2019
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gentrifooged
Reading that statement you’d swear they were running a charity or some altruistic service, it was a commercial venture, and don’t get me wrong, it was/is a grand pub, but get over yerselves.
they showcased a lot of art. put on exhibitions, played host to musicians, acts, all sorts of different creative people got an airing there. no other pub does that. it really was more than just a pub.
Many pubs do some or all of those things, as they recognise that they are good ways of making money.
ok rob lets hear it. let’s hear your presumably poopy take on this situation. are you glad to see the shaw close? are you glad to see huge office blocks go up all around it. cmon, let me have it.
Hi Mr. Fart,
As an art lover and purely your online name – you might enjoy the satirical humour of:
There is No F in ART on http://www.SvenDaliPress.com
Cheers to The Bernard Shaw guys starting something else, as good.
Eli
Bring back Bambriges..!!!
Will they knock the building down? That land must be worth a fortune.
Yup, going to be a hotel.
BAM/ O’Brien?
“that land must be worth a fortune..” if ever a phrase summed up this nation’s curse
Blueshirts and friends won’t be happy until Dublin is one big soulless mixed commercial/residential tower block
With no small business’
What on earth do you think this decision has to do with FG, the 3rd biggest part on DCC, I cannot fathom…
in your usual rush to be a killjoy contrarian bore on every broadsheet post you seem to have conveniently overlooked the use of ‘friends’ there to represent the sort of big business and commercial ventures which time and time again push cultural spaces to the margins when money gets involved. moves like this don’t exist in a DCC controlled vacuum either, the overall political environment feeds into them at every level (I presume you are aware of this fwiw but your bad faith points all deserve a mention)
Why does anyone reply to these guys?
brilliant. love seeing rob g gettin dunked on. but as im sure you know, he’ll reply and ignore all your salient points and hammer home some awful point you’ve already refuted. probably the worst of all the commenters on BS.
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hahahaha thats brilliant.
I just got a mad Deja Vu reading your post. Did you post that before or am I going nuts?
“…big business and commercial ventures”
– bodytonic is one of biggest music & events companies operating in the Irish market. One of their (numerous) pubs had a planning decision go against it.
Now, while I consider it a pity that the Bernard Shaw is closing down, trying to frame this as ‘big business Vs the little artsy collective’ flies in the face of objective reality.
he didn’t say that. once again rob, ur putting words in peoples mouths. read his comment, he doesnt say that, he says art gets pushed aside for big corporations, and it does.
It. is. a. pub.
Owned by a ‘big corporation’ (one which operates 7 other pubs).
The landlord wants to sell; a pity, but that’s business. There is clearly a demand for this style of pub, I’m sure bodytonic or another ‘corporation’ will have the wherewithal to open similar nearby.
Are you for real?
puzzles me that creative ventures take advantage of cheaper rents in areas of dereliction and then are surprised to have to move on at some point.
indeed – presumably they could go and work their magic somewhere around Thomas St or the north inner city – loads of derelict pubs that could be leased there.
+1
Considered the Shaw as one of the city’s many pop-up cultural and creative establishments that arose during the recession. Eatyard was great. Their tenure was never going to last forever. Another home would be a good move.
The pub opened in 1895 and is under it’s current ownership for 13 years but, yeah sure, “pop-up”.
reread the comment
Or Dublin 15.
Full of rich self loathing tossers these days
Perfect. Sounds like Portobello already.
Its on a block of land where all the other small business owners were also turfed out of their leased buildings. The former tenants of the block, beyond Raw Gym, added very little to the overall community around there generally.
Frankly, if everyone was being very honest with themselves, the Shaw has gone steadily downhill as a pub and meeting place over the last 2 years anyway. Now Eatyard is a different story, that’ll be missed.
Eatyard which was part of the Shaw?
reread the comment
Agree 100%.
The area is going to be redeveloped. Might as well do it properly. This has been on cards for years.
As other people have said there are lots of places they could move to.
Remind us again how much we give the bloody Abbey to put on foreign plays with foreign performers and foreign management (it’s €7-8 million).
jaysus …
lol
While the Peacock has a lot of Fringe stuff on, some of which is foreign, pretty much from now until October 26th the only thing at the Abbey is a play by Lisa Tierney-Keogh and a play by Dermot Bolger.
Yeah this was a place to get pissed and take yokes.
Jug of red bull and buckfast please, no I’ll take it out back where everyone is smoking joints and playing pool thanks.
The Bernie kept my session going through the recession. I’ve long since moved country but it was always nice to know that it still existed, and I’d visit it every time I’m home. I’ll be sad to see the place go.
The Bernie Inn? It’s long gone.
It was a fun, quirky option in a stale desert of sameness
Sad to see it go
Sorry to see Eatyard go.
The stale desserts didn’t help?
It wasn’t good. Fairly lame hipster street food priced at over the odds for them that wasn’t fed enough for free already in Facebook and Google.
It’s a shame alright, though €5.60 for a guinness is taking the wee.
was bambricks before that…it’ll be knocked and converted into something soulless.
Hipsters be homeless.
I won’t miss it. The Bernard Shaw was a place where I felt judged as soon as I walked through the door. Funny to see the bearded lads who find lots of stuff “problematic” wailing on Twitter. Maybe stop thinking you’re better than everybody else and framing everything in big-business-is-bad context.
Hahaha
I can’t even
You sound like a silly billy pants in fairness
Bodge, you’re meant to make my insults sound LESS cutting…
Pubs seem like they’ve been there forever but they come and they go.
I wont miss it either, but I think Bodytonic will find plenty of other spaces to keep doing what they’re doing.
https://bodytonicmusic.com/spaces/
Cure article by Una Mullally on woke g-entrification.
In fairness though, it added colour though not to the local community who avoided it.
And how does the local community feel now that sunlight is to be replaced by shadowed leds?
They would rather have neither.
The people most bemoaning the closure of this place are the very people responsible for the decline of Dublin. How many of them are native D8ers? Dublin Bikes Ex-Pat Tech Worker AirBnB JustEat Flat White Hell.
Second only to The Pillar Bar as the worst/slowest service in the city. You definitely wouldn’t want to go in thirsty anyway.
I’m sure it was a grand spot but I’ve never met a regular who was even marginally tolerable
“I assume Dublin City Council’s current strategy of turning Dublin into an anonymous Northern UK town bombed during WW2 is to ensure stag/hen party tourists from those towns aren’t scared off by anything novel”.
I live most of the time in a Northern UK town (Leeds), and it’s got a lot more independent cultural spaces and urban variety than Dublin these days.