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9 SOUTH ANNE STREET, Dublin

Address9 SOUTH ANNE STREET
CountyDublin
EircodeD02 NY88
Opening hours10:00-23:00; Fr,Sa 10:00-01:00
Licence refS0001

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Memory archive

Boards.ie memory links Kehoes with old memories, rituals and customs, atmosphere and 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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6 source leads · 2003-2017

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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.

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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]

Sources  (3)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. NIAH · John Kehoe, 9 South Anne Street, Duke Lane, Dublin 2, DUBLIN · 2016-05-16
  3. Irish Times · "New owner of Kehoe's denies move of licence" · 1996-10-23

PubHub lore

Local notes

Established

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.

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.

Community memory

Memory archive

Archive time depth

2003-2017

14 years of archive-metadata distance across 5 dated Boards.ie archive leads.

20032009201020112017
Full Boards.ie archive, story leads and sourcesKept on the page, collapsed so rich pubs do not run for screens.

Stories and local colour

Gossip, odd details and pub atmosphere

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.

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What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives Kehoes 6 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, repeated habits, match days, late-bar routines, quizzes, lock-ins, or other house rhythms, recommendations, atmosphere, room feel, and how people described the place and regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub. 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.

Source-linked story leads

  1. Archbishops issue strongly worded statement on Government decision for abortion

    2011 · characters, atmosphere, memory

  2. Your favourite pub in Ireland

    2003 · atmosphere

This is labelled forum memory: useful gossip, local claims and colour from source-linked public discussion, not PubHub treating the claims as settled fact.

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What the Boards.ie trail is useful for

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.

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What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives Kehoes 6 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, repeated habits, match days, late-bar routines, quizzes, lock-ins, or other house rhythms, recommendations, atmosphere, room feel, and how people described the place and regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub. 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.

v1 forum memory

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Characters and room texture

The character lane has 1 signal for Kehoes: 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.

v1 forum memory

time_depth

Archive time depth

Kehoes has 5 dated source leads from 2003 to 2017, giving the page a 14-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.

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Source trail

PubHub has 6 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.

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Story leads

Best Boards.ie memory leads

Kehoes has 6 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, rituals and customs, atmosphere and regulars and characters. The strongest current lead points into "Archbishops issue strongly worded statement on Government decision for abortion"; 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 1 regulars-or-room-texture signal.

Story, gossip and history leads

  1. Archbishops issue strongly worded statement on Government decision for abortion

    2011 · characters, atmosphere, memory · lead score 125

  2. Your favourite pub in Ireland

    2003 · atmosphere · lead score 112

  3. Best pint of Guinness

    2009 · memory · lead score 111

  4. Would you use a ladies toilet

    2010 · memory · lead score 111

  5. Nicky Kehoe hit for a big wedge?

    2017 · rituals and customs · lead score 97

Characters and room texture

  1. Archbishops issue strongly worded statement on Government decision for abortion

    2011 · characters, atmosphere, memory · lead score 125

  2. Your favourite pub in Ireland

    2003 · atmosphere · lead score 112

Archive profile

A Boards.ie forum trail

Kehoes has 6 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, rituals and customs, atmosphere and regulars and characters. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.

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Memory shape

Old memories, rituals and customs, atmosphere and regulars and characters

Correction loop

If the page is wrong or unfair, use the correction path and PubHub can update or remove it.

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Old memories

Boards.ie memory links this pub with older recollections, changed habits, former routines, or remembered visits.

Rituals and customs

Boards.ie memory links this pub with repeated habits, late bars, quiz nights, lock-ins, sessions, or house routines.

Room atmosphere

Boards.ie memory links this pub with room feel, recommendations, and how people described the place.

Regulars and characters

Boards.ie memory links this pub with regulars, bar characters, staff roles, or social texture around the room.

Archive source trail

Where this memory trace comes from

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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    Nicky Kehoe hit for a big wedge?

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  2. 2
    Nicky Kehoe hit for a big wedge?

    2017Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

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    Would you use a ladies toilet

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  4. 4
    Your favourite pub in Ireland

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  5. 5
  6. 6
    Best pint of Guinness

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

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