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THE PORTERHOUSE Listed

18 PARLIAMENT STREET, Dublin

Address18 PARLIAMENT STREET
CountyDublin
Licence refS0106

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Boards.ie memory links The Porterhouse with regulars and characters and old memories. 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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1 source lead · 2010

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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 S0106 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for THE PORTERHOUSE at 18 PARLIAMENT STREET in DUBLIN CITY with ISKASINC LIMITED as licensee.[1]

In 1999, the Irish Independent reported that a second Porterhouse was established in 1996 at Parliament Street, Dublin, with a brewery producing beers for its Bray and Dublin pubs.[2]

In 2022, the Irish Times reported that Iskasinc (the Porterhouse entity that owns the pub on the corner of Parliament Street and Essex Street) sought planning permission to build 11 bedrooms on top of the pub.[3]

Sources  (3)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. Irish Independent · "Porterhouse aims to have English market on tap" · 1999-07-01
  3. Irish Times · Porterhouse wants to build bedrooms on top of its flagship Dublin brewpub as suitors try buy it · 2022-12-09

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Established

The Parliament Street Porterhouse opened in 1996 as the second Porterhouse, with a brewery producing beers for the Bray and Dublin pubs.

Earlier uses

A 2022 Irish Times report said Iskasinc sought permission to build 11 bedrooms above the Parliament Street and Essex Street corner pub.

Architecture

Prominently located at Crossguns Bridge, this unusual building was erected about 1930 as a garage, but served as the headquarters of Ireland's first commercial airline, Iona Airways, which operated between 1931 and 1995. The enterprise was started here by the entrepreneur, Hugh Cahill, who initially had a motor company.

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2010

same-year archive trace across 1 dated Boards.ie archive lead.

2010
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Gossip, odd details and pub atmosphere

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What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives The Porterhouse 1 readable forum-memory signal around regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub and older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes. 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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What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives The Porterhouse 1 readable forum-memory signal around regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub and older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes. 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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Characters and room texture

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Archive time depth

The Porterhouse has 1 dated source lead from 2010. 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 Porterhouse has 1 readable Boards.ie memory signal around regulars and characters and old memories. The strongest current lead points into "Harvest Food Festival"; 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.

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  1. Harvest Food Festival

    2010 · characters, memory · lead score 135

Characters and room texture

  1. Harvest Food Festival

    2010 · characters, memory · lead score 135

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A Boards.ie forum trail

The Porterhouse has 1 readable Boards.ie memory match around regulars and characters and old memories. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.

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Regulars and characters and old memories

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Regulars and characters

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Old memories

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

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    Harvest Food Festival

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

Boards.ie forum memory

Boards.ie memory links The Porterhouse with regulars and characters and old memories. 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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