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36 HARCOURT STREET, AND THE REAR OF 37 & 38 HARCOURT STREET, DUBLIN

Address36 HARCOURT STREET, AND THE REAR OF 37 & 38 HARCOURT STREET, DUBLIN
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Licence ref1020014

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Boards.ie memory links The Dean Townhouse with stories and gossip, old memories, atmosphere, regulars and characters and music and sessions. 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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76 source leads · 2001-2015

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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 1020014 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for THE DEAN TOWNHOUSE at 36 HARCOURT STREET, AND THE REAR OF 37 & 38 HARCOURT STREET, DUBLIN in DUBLIN CITY with HOLTEND LIMITED as licensee.[1]

Irish Times reported in 2023 that The Dean Dublin had opened the Dean Townhouse as a new extension to the Harcourt Street hotel.[2] The report said a Georgian building had been transformed to add 49 bedrooms, bringing The Dean Dublin to 100 bedrooms, and that the Dean Townhouse opened with the Townhouse Bar, an outdoor courtyard, and the Marshall Room event space.[2]

Sources  (2)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. Irish Times · "Out to lunch: from Eastern promise to hot options for business dining" · 2023-04-19

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Archive time depth

2001-2015

14 years of archive-metadata distance across 76 dated Boards.ie archive leads.

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Stories and local colour

Gossip, odd details and pub atmosphere

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  1. How much are you paying for a pint? City Tribune story

    2007 · memory, story

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Characters and room texture

The character lane has 15 signals for The Dean Townhouse: 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.

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Archive time depth

The Dean Townhouse has 76 dated source leads from 2001 to 2015, 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

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Best Boards.ie memory leads

The Dean Townhouse has 76 readable Boards.ie memory signals around stories and gossip, old memories, atmosphere, regulars and characters and music and sessions. The strongest current lead points into "Soft Landing Day 28/09/2011 - How should it be celebrated?"; 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 15 regulars-or-room-texture signals.

Story, gossip and history leads

  1. Soft Landing Day 28/09/2011 - How should it be celebrated?

    2010 · characters, memory · lead score 141

  2. Soft Landing Day 28/09/2011 - How should it be celebrated?

    2010 · characters, memory · lead score 141

  3. How much are you paying for a pint? City Tribune story

    2007 · memory, story · lead score 125

  4. Electronique Supper @ EC - August 2

    2005 · characters, memory · lead score 125

  5. Jeff Walters & Stam @ EC - June 19

    2005 · characters, rituals and customs, memory · lead score 125

Characters and room texture

  1. Soft Landing Day 28/09/2011 - How should it be celebrated?

    2010 · characters, memory · lead score 141

  2. Soft Landing Day 28/09/2011 - How should it be celebrated?

    2010 · characters, memory · lead score 141

  3. Electronique Supper @ EC - August 2

    2005 · characters, memory · lead score 125

  4. Jeff Walters & Stam @ EC - June 19

    2005 · characters, rituals and customs, memory · lead score 125

  5. Ben Klock [Bpitch - Berlin] - Thursday May 15

    2005 · characters, atmosphere, memory · lead score 125

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A wide Boards.ie forum trail

The Dean Townhouse has 76 readable Boards.ie memory matches around stories and gossip, old memories, atmosphere, regulars and characters and music and sessions. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.

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Stories and gossip, old memories, atmosphere, regulars and characters and music and sessions

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Stories and gossip

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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.

  1. 1
    Soft Landing Day 28/09/2011 - How should it be celebrated?

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  2. 2
    Soft Landing Day 28/09/2011 - How should it be celebrated?

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  3. 3
    OCTOPUS pres | Anja Schneider | Thurs 19th | Pygmalion

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  4. 4
    CLICK BOX (M-nus, Sao Paolo) @ Pygmalion

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  5. 5
    Niall Power & Paudi Ahern - Sept 4 at EC

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  6. 6
    Rory St. John [Live] & Dave Anderson - May 29

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  7. 7
    Niall Power / Paudi Ahern / Rian Ryan - Thursday May 22

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  8. 8
    Ben Klock [Bpitch - Berlin] - Thursday May 15

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  9. 9
    2000 and One @ EC - Thursday Sept 13

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  10. 10
    Steve Bug @ EC - Thursday June 21

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  11. 11
    EC Vs Bodytonic - Thursday March 1 @ Wax

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  12. 12
    Dancepig @ Electric City - Thursday August 3rd

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  13. 13
    CS Open Mic Night (World Music)

    2001Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  14. 14
    What's On in the City?

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  15. 15
    30th birthday party

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  16. 16
    Boards Beers Summertime! (this Friday in Salt House)

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  17. 17
    West Boards.ie Drinks - Massimos, Friday 21st

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  18. 18
    21.08 / Metrotek / Grasshoppa / Stephen Donaldson

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  19. 19
    Jay Grogan & Dan Ring - Thursday Aug 7

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  20. 20
    Conan O'Donnell / Dave Noonan / Andy Doyle - July 10

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  21. 21
    Louis Osbourne at EC - Thursday July 3

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  22. 22
    Conan O'Donnell / thatboytim / DJ Gamadon - Nov 1

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  23. 23
    Luke Logan @ EC - Thursday Jan 4

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  24. 24
    AMP Presents GIRO - The Townhouse Bar, Galway City 24th October

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  25. 25
    Electric City @ Wax - July & August Line Up

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  26. 26
    Good and reasonably priced wedding bands

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  27. 27
    What's on in the City? - July 2013

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  28. 28
    Town Hall Music Gig

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  29. 29
    Live music in Galway city

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  30. 30
    Live music in Galway city

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  31. 31
    Live music in Galway city

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  32. 32
    Galway City Pubs by Music Policy

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  33. 33
    Looking to buy in Rathoath/Ashbourne/Dunshaughlin

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  34. 34
    Our Friends Electric - Sept 18

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  35. 35
    Cassy [Perlon - Berlin] - Thursday July 31

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  36. 36
    Efdemin - Thursday May 1

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  37. 37
    Jemmy [Aztec - Liverpool] & Sam Kay // April 10

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  38. 38
    Philip Ryan / Oisin Murphy / Dan Ring - Feb 21

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  39. 39
    Dave Tarrida [Tresor] - Thursday Dec 13

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  40. 40
    Heartthrob *Live - Thursday November 8

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  41. 41
    Fran Hartnett [Live] @ EC - Thursday August 30

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  42. 42
    Ben Sims @ EC - Thursday April 19

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  43. 43
    T.Raumschmiere @ EC - Thursday February 22

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  44. 44
    Chris Liebing at EC - Dec 21st

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  45. 45
    Townhouse bar

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 77

  46. 46
    Places suitable for a group night out

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  47. 47
    Places suitable for a group night out

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  48. 48
  49. 49
  50. 50
    The Last Days of Electric City...

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  51. 51
    Traxx [Creme / Nation - Chicago] / Thurs June 26

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  52. 52
    Jeff Walters & Stam @ EC - June 19

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  53. 53
    Simon Hayes & Andre Byrne - Thursday May 8

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  54. 54
    Sunil Sharpe & Chymera [Live] - Thursday April 3

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  55. 55
    Rikard Degler & Scott Logan - This Thursday at Wax

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  56. 56
    Electronique Supper @ EC - August 2

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  57. 57
    Oisin Murphy, True Ego [Live] & Dan Ring @ EC - 12.07

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  58. 58
    EC 4th Birthday Party with Modeselektor - Thur March 8

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  59. 59
    Bickley O'Farrell - New music in 14 years from Interference

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  60. 60
    VERY low key wedding..

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  61. 61
    Shops/Businesses opening/closing

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  62. 62
    Shops/Businesses opening/closing

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  63. 63
    Shops/Businesses opening/closing

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  64. 64
    Shops/Businesses opening/closing down

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  65. 65
    Shops/Businesses opening/closing down

    2015Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  66. 66
    Shops/Businesses opening/closing down

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  67. 67
    How much are you paying for a pint? City Tribune story

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  68. 68
    What's on in the City? - October 2013

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  69. 69
    Top Chips

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  70. 70
    Spanish Arch Hotel- 30th party?

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  71. 71
    Good bar/pub for a Friday night date

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  72. 72
    In the Townhouse bar today

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  73. 73
    In the Townhouse bar today

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  74. 74
    Crannog, Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  75. 75
    Gleann Riada - what's the story

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  76. 76
    Houses - New vs. Pre-owned in D15

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

Boards.ie forum memory

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