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Boards.ie memory links Grainger with regulars and characters. 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.
2 source leads · 2002-2015
Read source trail🏭 Heritage-listed building
Built: c.1820 · NIAH rating: Regional
This prominently sited late Georgian public house is a landmark feature of the surrounding streetscape which displays numerous novel decorative features. Although remodelled internally, the building makes an important contribution to the architectural quality and variety of the northern part of the Georgian City as well as to the surrounding streetscape. Located opposite Connolly Station it forms an integral component of a street that was developed in the first quarter of the nineteenth-century to link Sackville Street (O'Connell Street today) via Earl and Moland Streets, to the then...
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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 N0053 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for GRAINGER at 51/52 TALBOT STREET in DUBLIN CITY with J. J. GRAINGER (DUBLIN) LIMITED as licensee.[1]
NIAH records the associated building as a Regional-rated late Georgian public house dated 1820-1840 and describes it as a landmark feature opposite Connolly Station.[2]
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Established
Built between c.1820 and c.1840.
Architecture
This prominently sited late Georgian public house is a landmark feature of the surrounding streetscape which displays numerous novel decorative features. Although remodelled internally, the building makes an important contribution to the architectural quality and variety of the northern part of the Georgian City as well as to the surrounding…
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Archive time depth
13 years of archive-metadata distance across 2 dated Boards.ie archive leads.
Archive profile
Grainger has 2 linked Boards.ie memory leads around regulars and characters. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to the source post where possible.
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Regulars and characters
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Archive source trail
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Boards.ie memory links Grainger with regulars and characters. 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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