Distilleries, bonded stores, pubs, shebeens, fake whiskey sales, breweries, bottling factories, hostelries and cider gangs all form part of how the Poddle has close ties to Alcohol throughout its history.

Two centuries ago
20 Aug 1778An extensive and uncommon system of fraud was yesterday discovered on Dame Street. At the rere of a house in that street, under some warehouses which are entered from Sycamore…
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Two centuries ago
2 Jul 1795Auctions One of those quizzing Auctions for which the Sky Merchants are becoming famous, is advertised for this day. The Catalogue announces for Sale, a large quantity of Bordeaux Vinegar,…
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Great fire in Dublin
22 Jun 1875Further Particulars As might he expected, the scene of the conflagration was visited by many thousands of the citizens on Saturday and Sunday. From the report of tho police, it…
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Serious fire outbreak in Dublin
17 Sep 1906Our Dublin correspondent says —A big blaze occurred in the small hours of the 15th inst. in Messrs. Barnatt’s food stores, Fumbally’s Lane, in the Liberties, west of St. Patrick’s…
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Whalleys’ house – No.1 St. Patrick Street
16 Oct 1927Whalleys’ house – No. 1 St Patrick Street, which was then within the county became an inn owned by the famous Timothy O’ Brien. The worthy Boniface, it is said,…
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Porter or Stout?
26 Mar 1957Pressure on space lopped-off my little paragraph on the riddle of: Which came first – Porter or Stout? Mr. Leslie A. Luke (now P.R.O. to St. James’s Gate) supplements the…
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St. James Gate
24 Mar 1960St. James’s Gate, been a favourite district for breweries. The situation was particularly suitable for the industry as it lay on the main thoroughfare to Dublin from the corn-growing districts of the central plain. The…
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Open modern bottling premises
2 Oct 1962MESSRS. Earl Bottlers Ltd. have opened in Earl Street, South, Dublin, what is claimed to be the most modem and scientific bottling premises in Ireland. At a time when the…
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Drinking habits old and new
4 May 1967[more in PDF…] Faced with figures like that I had to admit that Paddy had certainly done his home work on this aspect of Dublin culture. But, apart from this…
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The castle moat
5 Apr 1968At the Epiphany, 1591, there was the usual extra beer issue to the garrison of Dublin Castle, high revel in the officers’ quarters, sentries numb -with cold on the high…
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In Marrowbone Lane
11 Feb 1970Liam’s drawing here recalls one of the strangest corruptions that have befallen any Dublin street name. It is marked, but not named, on Brooking’s map of 1728, and seems to…
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Former Alley Corner
26 Jan 1972This hostelry, on the corner of Dean Street and New Street South, stands at a much-changed spot. What is now Dean Street was called Cross Poddle, until May, 1826, when the…
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Cider gangs terrify residents
5 Jul 1978RAMPAGING teenagers high on cider are terrifying residents in Poddle Park, Kimmage, according to Fianna Fail T.D. Gerard Brady today. He said that teenage cider parties on waste land in…
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