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THE SWAN BAR Heritage

57/58 YORK STREET, Dublin

Address57/58 YORK STREET
CountyDublin
EircodeD02 RW67
Licence refS0127

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Boards.ie memory links The Swan Bar with stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and characters, local colour 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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15 source leads · 2004-2015

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🏭 Heritage-listed building

NIAH building record

Built: c.1885 · NIAH rating: Regional

A prominent purpose-built public house. Casey (2005) dates it to 1897, but the Dictionary of Irish Architects suggests a rebuild in 1913 by architects G.T. Moore, Keefe & Robinson. Recently restored, this decorative building exhibits an array of façade decoration and an impressive shopfront, and retains fine interior fittings. A landmark in the streetscape, the decorative façade treatment and curved corner successfully bookends a terrace of varied building types, adding to the architectural character on this stretch of Aungier Street. The façade reputed to retain bullet holes from 1916 Rising.

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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 S0127 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for THE SWAN BAR at 57/58 YORK STREET in DUBLIN CITY with THE SWAN BAR LIMITED as licensee.[1]

The Irish Times reported in 2014 that the Swan Bar on the corner of Aungier Street and York Street had undergone considerable restoration after damage during the severe winter of 2010 and had been given funding for window repairs.[2]

The Irish Times reported in 2019 that Sean Lynch, Ronan Lynch and Swan Bar Ltd settled a High Court defamation action over a 2016 article saying the Swan Bar had closed and was for sale.[3]

The apology read in court said that closure-and-sale statement came from an inaccurate press release supplied by selling agent Lisney.[3]

Sources  (3)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. Irish Times · "EUR700,000 fund to protect historic buildings in Dublin" · 2014-08-15
  3. Irish Times · "Owners of Dublin bar settle defamation case" · 2019-07-11

PubHub lore

Local notes

Established

Built between c.1885 and c.1905.

Architecture

A prominent purpose-built public house. Casey (2005) dates it to 1897, but the Dictionary of Irish Architects suggests a rebuild in 1913 by architects G.T. Moore, Keefe & Robinson. Recently restored, this decorative building exhibits an array of façade decoration and an impressive shopfront, and retains fine interior fittings.

Community memory

Memory archive

Archive time depth

2004-2015

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

20042005200620072008200920102011
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Flagship memory draft

The Swan Bar: Boards.ie memory worth building out

Boards.ie gives The Swan Bar a useful forum-memory trail around stories and gossip, old memories, characters and regulars, local colour and rituals and house habits. PubHub is treating it as linked public memory, not settled fact.

The archive has 15 readable signals for The Swan 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: 3 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 15 unique Boards.ie URLs for review. The dated archive span visible on the page is 2004-2015.

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

Readable memory note

Boards.ie gives The Swan Bar a source-linked forum-memory trail around stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and room characters, oddities and local colour and rituals and habits, with 15 readable signals preserved for review. The character lane adds 3 room-texture signals, pointing to regulars, crowds, roles or recurring pub talk without treating forum memory as verified fact.

15 readable signals 3 character signals
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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

Gossip, odd details and pub atmosphere

The archive has 15 readable signals for The Swan 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

What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives The Swan Bar 15 readable forum-memory signals around story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub, odd details, local colour, and the stray fragments that make the page feel lived-in 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.

Source-linked story leads

  1. Ethiopian Airlines first flight to Dublin

    2008 · story

  2. Dinosaur Jr & Built to spill. Dublin Galway

    2006 · memory, story

  3. Children not being taught respect for nature

    2010 · story

  4. Absolute bastards..

    2006 · 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.

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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 The Swan Bar 15 readable forum-memory signals around story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub, odd details, local colour, and the stray fragments that make the page feel lived-in 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.

v1 forum memory

characters

Characters and room texture

The character lane has 3 signals for The Swan 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.

v1 forum memory

time_depth

Archive time depth

The Swan Bar has 14 dated source leads from 2004 to 2015, giving the page a 11-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 15 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

The Swan Bar has 15 readable Boards.ie memory signals around stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and characters, local colour and rituals and customs. The strongest current lead points into "Ethiopian Airlines first flight to Dublin"; 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 3 regulars-or-room-texture signals.

Story, gossip and history leads

  1. Ethiopian Airlines first flight to Dublin

    2008 · story · lead score 129

  2. Dinosaur Jr & Built to spill. Dublin Galway

    2006 · memory, story · lead score 127

  3. Protesters mount picket as Stardust pub opens again

    2005 · characters, memory · lead score 122

  4. Children not being taught respect for nature

    2010 · story · lead score 119

  5. Absolute bastards..

    2006 · story · lead score 111

Characters and room texture

  1. Protesters mount picket as Stardust pub opens again

    2005 · characters, memory · lead score 122

  2. Your favourite area in Dublin...

    characters · lead score 109

  3. Tesco Internship

    2011 · characters · lead score 108

Archive profile

A Boards.ie forum trail

The Swan Bar has 15 readable Boards.ie memory matches around stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and characters, local colour and rituals and customs. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.

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Memory shape

Stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and characters, local colour 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.

Stories and gossip

Boards.ie memory links this pub with story-shaped talk, gossip, rumours, and local claims worth surfacing as forum memory.

Old memories

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

Regulars and characters

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

Local colour

Boards.ie memory links this pub with odd details, local colour, and the kind of fragments that make pub pages more alive.

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.

  1. 1
    What kind of scum does this to somebody's child?

    2015Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  2. 2
    low cost flowers for wedding

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  3. 3
    Men wearing hats indoors

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  4. 4
    Ethiopian Airlines first flight to Dublin

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  5. 5
    Protesters mount picket as Stardust pub opens again

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  6. 6
    D15 wildlife?

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  7. 7
    Most eerie place in Ireland

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  8. 8
    AFTER HOURS BEERS *TONIGHT* 10TH OCTOBER - THE DUKE DUBLIN

    2015Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

  9. 9
    Dinosaur Jr & Built to spill. Dublin Galway

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  10. 10
    Children not being taught respect for nature

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  11. 11
    Your favourite area in Dublin...

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  12. 12
    Tesco Internship

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  13. 13
    Absolute bastards..

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  14. 14
    Local facts and myths

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  15. 15
    Local facts and myths

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

Boards.ie forum memory

Boards.ie memory links The Swan Bar with stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and characters, local colour 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.

Source links

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Boards.ie sprint target

Next memory action for this pub

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.

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