Community memory
Boards.ie memory links Fitzsimons Hotel with old memories and nights out and craic. 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.
5 source leads · 2001-2007
Read source trailFrom 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 S4488 as a Publican's Licence (ordinary) - Theatre for FITZSIMONS HOTEL at 20/21/22 WELLINGTON QUAY, AND 15/16/17 AND 18 EAST ESSEX STREET in DUBLIN CITY with THE TEMPLE BAR TAVERN as licensee.[1]
Irish Times coverage in 2008 described Fitzsimons Hotel on Wellington Quay as backing onto Essex Street and identified its basement nightclub as part of Temple Bar's night-time noise context.[2] Irish Times coverage in 2014 said Fitzsimons Hotel used a loudspeaker to broadcast music into the street.[3] Irish Independent reported in 2017 that accounts for Temple Bar Tavern Ltd, operator of Fitzsimons Hotel, showed EUR377,961 spent on music, entertainment, and royalties in 2015.[4]
Community memory
Archive time depth
6 years of archive-metadata distance across 4 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.
story gossip
Boards.ie gives Fitzsimons Hotel 5 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes and nights out, banter, sessions, lively talk, and social energy around the room. This is not verified pub history; it is a mapped trail of what people said online and where PubHub can go next for local colour.
2007 · craic
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.
story_gossip
Boards.ie gives Fitzsimons Hotel 5 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes and nights out, banter, sessions, lively talk, and social energy around the room. This is not verified pub history; it is a mapped trail of what people said online and where PubHub can go next for local colour.
time_depth
Fitzsimons Hotel has 4 dated source leads from 2001 to 2007, giving the page a 6-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.
source_depth
PubHub has 5 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
Fitzsimons Hotel has 5 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories and nights out and craic. The strongest current lead points into "How strict are Dublin's pubs/clubs?"; PubHub should keep it labelled as forum memory, then use corrections and source review to turn the best fragments into fuller local stories.
2007 · memory · lead score 108
2004 · memory · lead score 104
2001 · memory · lead score 104
memory · lead score 100
2007 · craic · lead score 89
Archive profile
Fitzsimons Hotel has 5 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories and nights out and craic. 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 and nights out and craic
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.
Nights out
Boards.ie memory links this pub with nights out, banter, sessions, or lively pub-going talk.
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.
2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80
2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75
2001Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76
Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76
2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76
Boards.ie forum memory
Boards.ie memory links Fitzsimons Hotel with old memories and nights out and craic. 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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