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ESSEX STREET EAST OF DOLLARD HOUSE, 2/5 WELLINGTON QUAY, Dublin

AddressESSEX STREET EAST OF DOLLARD HOUSE, 2/5 WELLINGTON QUAY
CountyDublin
Licence ref1013039

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11 source leads · 2002-2017

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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.

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Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref 1013039 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for ROBERTA'S at ESSEX STREET EAST OF DOLLARD HOUSE, 2/5 WELLINGTON QUAY in DUBLIN CITY with BRUSHFIELD LIMITED as licensee.[1]

Irish Times reported in May 2017 that Roberta's, a first-floor restaurant in the Wellington Quay building, was due to open on May 19th as part of a phased Press Up Group food project that also included Dollard & Co below it and a basement steakhouse.[2] Irish Times reported in July 2017 that Dublin City Council had brought High Court proceedings seeking to close Roberta's pending compliance with building regulations, with the case concerning the restaurant and bar on the first floor of Dollard House at Wellington Quay and Essex Street East.[3] NIAH records Dollard's Printing House at 2-5 Wellington Quay and Essex Street East as a regional-rated former print works dating to 1885-1890, and says the Dollard Printing Company established in 1856 moved to the site thirty years later.[4]

Sources  (4)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. Irish Times · "First phase of McKillen food emporium opens on Dublin's quays" · 2017-05-13
  3. Irish Times · "Dublin restaurant 'does not comply with building regulations'" · 2017-07-03
  4. NIAH · Registry entry, ref. 50020033 · 2015-02-21

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Archive time depth

2002-2017

15 years of archive-metadata distance across 11 dated Boards.ie archive leads.

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The archive has 11 readable signals for Roberta's, with enough repetition to make this a good candidate for a fuller memory page. The useful material is the pattern: what people returned to, joked about, remembered, or argued over.

The source trail currently preserves 11 unique Boards.ie URLs for review. The dated archive span visible on the page is 2002-2017.

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Boards.ie gives Roberta's 11 readable forum-memory signals around old memories, stories and gossip, rituals and habits, atmosphere and music and sessions. The useful pattern is what people remembered, joked about, returned to or used as a local reference point, kept here as labelled community memory with source links and corrections open.

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The archive has 11 readable signals for Roberta's, with enough repetition to make this a good candidate for a fuller memory page. The useful material is the pattern: what people returned to, joked about, remembered, or argued over.

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What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives Roberta's 11 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, 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 music, singing, gigs, sessions, and the sound of the pub in forum memory. 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. Da Roberta's

    2004 · story

  2. Fine Dining in Galway

    2004 · atmosphere, story

  3. Fine Dining in Galway

    2003 · story

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What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives Roberta's 11 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, 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 music, singing, gigs, sessions, and the sound of the pub in forum memory. 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.

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Archive time depth

Roberta's has 11 dated source leads from 2002 to 2017, giving the page a 15-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.

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Roberta's has 11 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, stories and gossip, rituals and customs, atmosphere and music and sessions. The strongest current lead points into "Da Roberta's"; PubHub should keep it labelled as forum memory, then use corrections and source review to turn the best fragments into fuller local stories.

Story, gossip and history leads

  1. Da Roberta's

    2004 · story · lead score 116

  2. Fine Dining in Galway

    2004 · atmosphere, story · lead score 116

  3. Fine Dining in Galway

    2003 · story · lead score 116

  4. What Music Did You Like Listening To As A Teenager?

    2009 · memory · lead score 113

  5. Anyone remember name of writer who killed herself years ago?

    2011 · memory · lead score 113

Characters and room texture

  1. "I love you"

    2002 · music and sessions · lead score 98

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    Anyone remember name of writer who killed herself years ago?

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 77

  2. 2
    Anyone remember name of writer who killed herself years ago?

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 77

  3. 3
    Best chipper in the city or county

    2016Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 77

  4. 4
    Best chipper in the city or county

    2017Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 77

  5. 5
    Galway - The Ultimate Guide

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  6. 6
    Fine Dining in Galway

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  7. 7
    Fine Dining in Galway

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  8. 8
    Should Ireland allow transgender people in the army?

    2017Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 77

  9. 9
    What Music Did You Like Listening To As A Teenager?

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 77

  10. 10
    Da Roberta's

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 77

  11. 11
    "I love you"

    2002Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 77

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