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First licensed in 1803, just off Grafton Street on South Anne Street. The interior visitors see today is the product of a late-19th-century Victorian renovation.
Kehoes Pub
9 Anne St S
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9 Anne St S, Dublin, D02 NY88Friday 10:30 am to 12:30 amRecorded 2026-09-11
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Recorded pub details
- Listed name
- Kehoes PubRecorded 2026-09-11
- Listed address
- 9 Anne St S, Dublin, D02 NY88Recorded 2026-09-11
- Phone
- (01) 677 8312Recorded 2026-09-11
- Website
- http://kehoesdublin.ie/Recorded 2026-09-11
- Opening hours
- Friday 10:30 am to 12:30 am
- Saturday 10:30 am to 12:30 am
- Sunday 11:30 am to 11:30 pm
- Monday 10:30 am to 11:30 pm
- Tuesday 11 am to 11:30 pm
- Wednesday 10:30 am to 11:30 pm
- Thursday 10:30 am to 11:30 pm
- Facilities
- Accessibility: No wheelchair-accessible car park
- Service options: Has outdoor seating; On-site services available; No delivery; No takeaway; No dine-in
- Highlights: Has great beer selection
- Offerings: Serves alcohol; Serves beer; Serves spirits; Serves wine
- Dining options: Has seating; No table service
- Amenities: Has toilet
- Atmosphere: Casual; Cosy; Trendy
- Crowd: Good for groups; Popular with tourists
- Planning: Doesn't accept reservations
- Payments: Accepts credit cards; Accepts debit cards; Accepts NFC mobile payments; Credit cards
- Parking: Difficult to find a space
- Eircode
- D02 NY88
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What the archives say
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.
Listing historyCultural mentionsArchitecture
Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref S0001 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for KEHOES at 9 South Anne Street in Dublin city, with TRIMBLEGROVE LIMITED as licensee.[1]
NIAH records John Kehoe at 9 South Anne Street and Duke Lane as a regional-rated former house with architectural, artistic, and social interest.[2]
NIAH dates the building to 1715-1900, records its original use as a house, and records its current survey use as a public house.[2]
The NIAH description says the building is a corner-sited former house built c.1725, with a lower c.1880 return and later public-house use.[2]
NIAH identifies a Victorian wraparound pubfrontage, panelled stall-riser, painted timber fascia, four-panel timber door, and carved timber joinery.[2]
NIAH says Kehoe's has been in use as a public house since 1803 and describes its late Victorian pubfrontage and interior as among Dublin city's best preserved Victorian pub interiors.[2]
NIAH records the pub as a haunt of Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Behan, and Flann O'Brien.[2]
The Irish Times reported in 1996 that Dublin publican Louis Fitzgerald paid GBP2.01 million at auction for Kehoe's bar on South Anne Street.[3]
The same Irish Times report said Fitzgerald denied plans to move the licence and said the Victorian bar would stay in business.[3]
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Local notes
Literary links
Identified by Joycean scholars as the setting for the first part of *Grace*, from *Dubliners*. The back exterior wall carries the Joyce inscription: 'In the particular is contained the universal.'
Architecture
Original Victorian fittings: mahogany bar, traditional snugs, the partitioned counter that has shielded poets from publicans for over two centuries.
Regulars
James Joyce, Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh and Myles na gCopaleen all drank here — the latter three frequently when they had fallen out of favour over in McDaid's.
Reputation
Among Dublin's literary-pub triumvirate alongside McDaid's and the Palace Bar. The mid-century writers' rotation between the three pubs is part of Dublin's drinking history.
House rules
Be sound. Welcome newcomers. Keep it about the pub.
Recorded details, hours and facilities
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- Listed name · observed 2026-09-11
- Kehoes Pub
- Listed address · observed 2026-09-11
- 9 Anne St S, Dublin, D02 NY88
- Phone · observed 2026-09-11
- (01) 677 8312
- Website · observed 2026-09-11
- http://kehoesdublin.ie/
- Opening hours · observed 2026-09-11
- Friday: 10:30 am to 12:30 am
- Saturday: 10:30 am to 12:30 am
- Sunday: 11:30 am to 11:30 pm
- Monday: 10:30 am to 11:30 pm
- Tuesday: 11 am to 11:30 pm
- Wednesday: 10:30 am to 11:30 pm
- Thursday: 10:30 am to 11:30 pm
- Facilities · observed 2026-09-11
- Accessibility: No wheelchair-accessible car park
- Service options: Has outdoor seating; On-site services available; No delivery; No takeaway; No dine-in
- Highlights: Has great beer selection
- Offerings: Serves alcohol; Serves beer; Serves spirits; Serves wine
- Dining options: Has seating; No table service
- Amenities: Has toilet
- Atmosphere: Casual; Cosy; Trendy
- Crowd: Good for groups; Popular with tourists
- Planning: Doesn't accept reservations
- Payments: Accepts credit cards; Accepts debit cards; Accepts NFC mobile payments; Credit cards
- Parking: Difficult to find a space