Community memory
Boards.ie memory links The Shakespeare Bar with old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and rituals and customs. 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.
40 source leads · 2001-2015
Read source trail🏭 Heritage-listed building
Built: c.1720 · NIAH rating: Regional
This prominently sited and unusually designed building is one of the key features of this streetscape, with a machicolated parapet granting it a castellated aspect. While a later addition, the shopfront fits the building's historic appearence with its array of finely worked granite and timber details. The retention of other historic fabric such as sash windows, excellent polychromatic brickwork and a well-executed slate roof further enhances the building's architectural and artistic value. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries this building served as a grocer, spirit and wine merchant...
From the record · Verified background
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.
Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref N0107 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for THE SHAKESPEARE BAR at 160/161 PARNELL STREET in DUBLIN CITY with KYOUNG HEE LIMITED as licensee.[1]
NIAH records the associated building as a Regional-rated structure dated 1720-1740 and notes its castellated parapet, granite-and-timber shopfront details, sash windows, brickwork, and slate roof.[2]
PubHub lore
Established
Built between c.1720 and c.1740.
Architecture
This prominently sited and unusually designed building is one of the key features of this streetscape, with a machicolated parapet granting it a castellated aspect. While a later addition, the shopfront fits the building's historic appearence with its array of finely worked granite and timber details.
Community memory
Archive time depth
14 years of archive-metadata distance across 38 dated Boards.ie archive leads.
Flagship memory draft
Boards.ie gives The Shakespeare Bar a useful forum-memory trail around old memories, stories and gossip, characters and regulars, room atmosphere and rituals and house habits. PubHub is treating it as linked public memory, not settled fact.
The archive has 40 readable signals for The Shakespeare Bar, 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 character lane is active here: 11 signals point toward regulars, staff-memory, crowds, roles, and room texture. PubHub should keep private people protected while preserving the sense of the room.
The source trail currently preserves 40 unique Boards.ie URLs for review. The dated archive span visible on the page is 2001-2015.
Generated V1 flagship draft. Before turning this into stronger editorial copy, open the linked sources, check pub identity, and keep corrections/removals easy.
Boards.ie editor brief
Boards.ie gives The Shakespeare Bar a source-linked forum-memory trail around old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and room characters, atmosphere and rituals and habits, with 40 readable signals preserved for review. The character lane adds 11 room-texture signals, pointing to regulars, crowds, roles or recurring pub talk without treating forum memory as verified fact.
This is an editor brief from source-linked forum memory. It is not a verified pub fact, and sensitive private-person claims stay out of public copy.
Stories and local colour
The archive has 40 readable signals for The Shakespeare Bar, 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.
story gossip
Boards.ie gives The Shakespeare Bar 40 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, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub, recommendations, atmosphere, room feel, and how people described the place and repeated habits, match days, late-bar routines, quizzes, lock-ins, or other house rhythms. 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.
2009 · characters, story
2008 · story
This is labelled forum memory: useful gossip, local claims and colour from source-linked public discussion, not PubHub treating the claims as settled fact.
PubHub read of the archive
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.
story_gossip
Boards.ie gives The Shakespeare Bar 40 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, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub, recommendations, atmosphere, room feel, and how people described the place and repeated habits, match days, late-bar routines, quizzes, lock-ins, or other house rhythms. 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.
characters
The character lane has 11 signals for The Shakespeare Bar: 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.
time_depth
The Shakespeare Bar has 38 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.
source_depth
PubHub has 40 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.
Story leads
The Shakespeare Bar has 40 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and rituals and customs. The strongest current lead points into "Zimbabwe Bets Entire National Budget On Fulham Vs. Manchester United"; 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 11 regulars-or-room-texture signals.
2008 · characters · lead score 126
2014 · characters, memory · lead score 126
2010 · characters · lead score 126
2009 · characters, story · lead score 122
2008 · story · lead score 122
2008 · characters · lead score 126
2014 · characters, memory · lead score 126
2010 · characters · lead score 126
2009 · characters, story · lead score 122
2008 · characters, memory · lead score 120
Archive profile
The Shakespeare Bar has 40 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and rituals and customs. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.
V1 source
Boards.ie readable-first raw review queue
Memory shape
Old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and rituals and customs
Correction loop
If the page is wrong or unfair, use the correction path and PubHub can update or remove it.
V1 shows linked forum memory and local talk as memory, not as PubHub fact-checking.
Old memories
Boards.ie memory links this pub with older recollections, changed habits, former routines, or remembered visits.
Stories and gossip
Boards.ie memory links this pub with story-shaped talk, gossip, rumours, and local claims worth surfacing as forum memory.
Regulars and characters
Boards.ie memory links this pub with regulars, bar characters, staff roles, or social texture around the room.
Room atmosphere
Boards.ie memory links this pub with room feel, recommendations, and how people described the place.
Archive source trail
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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2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 84
2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 84
2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 77
2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
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2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
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2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
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2001Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76
2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75
2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75
2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 84
2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
2014Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 84
2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 77
2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 84
2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 84
2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
2014Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 84
2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75
2001Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75
2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80
2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75
2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
Boards.ie forum memory
Boards.ie memory links The Shakespeare Bar with old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and rituals and customs. 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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Boards.ie sprint target
This pub is in the current Boards.ie Memory Productization Sprint. The goal is to turn useful forum traces, gossip, characters, regulars and source leads into readable public memory without treating them as verified facts.
Operator next step
Open the source links and turn the strongest themes into tighter, readable page copy without overclaiming.
Make the page feel alive without overclaiming: name the recurring themes, describe the room texture, and invite corrections or extra memories.
Browse the full lane on the Boards.ie sprint board.