Community memory
Boards.ie memory links Doyles with old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and music and sessions. PubHub V1 treats this as published forum memory: not a settled fact, but a linked record of what people said, remembered, joked about, or claimed online.
83 source leads · 1998-2018
Read source trail🏭 Heritage-listed building
Built: c.1810 · NIAH rating: Regional
The building's bowed facade (shared with 50020276) was mirrored by a corresponding bowed façade on the corner of Great Brunswick Street (now Pearse Street) and Townsend Street, replaced by Pearse Street Garda Station (50020309)in 1913 - although the replacement building kept the bow end in its design. The buildings were designed and built shortly after the Wide Street Commission laid out the western extent of Pearse Street, replacing a terrace of older houses. Its distinctive curved facade with cut stone quoins, and its maintenance of parapet height and fenestration arrangement with the...
From the record · Verified background
Independent reporting and heritage records on this pub, drawn from a curated list of Irish news outlets, Revenue Commissioners, NIAH, and the Dictionary of Irish Architects. Every claim links to its primary source.
Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref S0009 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for DOYLES at 9 COLLEGE STREET and connected Fleet Street areas in DUBLIN CITY with AMATREK LIMITED as licensee.[1] NIAH records Doyle's, 9 College Street as a regional-rated corner building, built c.1820 as a former house and now in use as a public house.[2] The Irish Times reported in 2020 that the Ruby Sessions had run every Tuesday for 21 years in Doyle's pub on College Street before pausing in March 2020 during Covid-19 restrictions.[3] In September 2019, The Irish Times reported that a Dublin Bus mounted the footpath outside Doyle's after a collision while turning from D'Olier Street into College Green.[4]
PubHub lore
Established
Built between c.1810 and c.1830.
Architecture
The building's bowed facade (shared with 50020276) was mirrored by a corresponding bowed façade on the corner of Great Brunswick Street (now Pearse Street) and Townsend Street, replaced by Pearse Street Garda Station (50020309)in 1913 - although the replacement building kept the bow end in its design.
Community memory
Archive time depth
20 years of archive-metadata distance across 81 dated Boards.ie archive leads.
Stories and local colour
The Boards.ie trail has story-shaped signals for this pub: odd details, gossip, atmosphere, nights out or local colour that may be useful leads for a fuller memory page.
2003 · characters, memory, story
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2005 · characters, atmosphere, memory
This is labelled forum memory: useful gossip, local claims and colour from source-linked public discussion, not PubHub treating the claims as settled fact.
PubHub read of the archive
These cards turn the raw forum trail into practical page leads: gossip, character texture, time depth, source depth, and review warnings where the match pattern is broad.
overmatch_review
Boards.ie produces 83 readable matches for Doyles, but the name or hit pattern is broad enough that PubHub should treat this as a source-mining queue before writing stronger lore. The links still preserve useful public memory leads.
characters
The character lane has 26 signals for Doyles: regulars, staff-memory, crowds, habits, or the social feel of the room. PubHub keeps this as labelled forum memory and uses source review before turning any named-person fragment into stronger copy.
time_depth
Doyles has 81 dated source leads from 1998 to 2018, giving the page a 20-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.
source_depth
PubHub has 83 unique Boards.ie source URLs tied to this pub-memory record. Each public lead stays linked so corrections can point to the exact forum source.
Story leads
Doyles has 83 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and music and sessions. The strongest current lead points into "On The Prowel grrrgrr"; PubHub should keep it labelled as forum memory, then use corrections and source review to turn the best fragments into fuller local stories. The character lane is especially useful here, with 26 regulars-or-room-texture signals.
2003 · characters, memory, story · lead score 139
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2003 · characters, memory, story · lead score 139
2005 · characters, memory, story · lead score 139
2005 · characters, atmosphere, memory · lead score 133
2012 · characters · lead score 133
2007 · characters · lead score 127
High-volume or generic-name matches are flagged for source review before PubHub turns them into stronger editorial copy.
Archive profile
Doyles has 83 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and music and sessions. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.
V1 source
Boards.ie readable-first raw review queue
Memory shape
Old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and music and sessions
Correction loop
If the page is wrong or unfair, use the correction path and PubHub can update or remove it.
V1 shows linked forum memory and local talk as memory, not as PubHub fact-checking.
Old memories
Boards.ie memory links this pub with older recollections, changed habits, former routines, or remembered visits.
Stories and gossip
Boards.ie memory links this pub with story-shaped talk, gossip, rumours, and local claims worth surfacing as forum memory.
Regulars and characters
Boards.ie memory links this pub with regulars, bar characters, staff roles, or social texture around the room.
Room atmosphere
Boards.ie memory links this pub with room feel, recommendations, and how people described the place.
Archive source trail
These are linked Boards.ie leads from pre-2026 discussion. PubHub V1 shows the linked trail as forum memory and uses the correction path for bad matches, missing context, or pages that need checking.
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Boards.ie forum memory
Boards.ie memory links Doyles with old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and music and sessions. PubHub V1 treats this as published forum memory: not a settled fact, but a linked record of what people said, remembered, joked about, or claimed online.
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