Community memory
Boards.ie memory links Toners with old memories, regulars and characters, stories and gossip, story leads 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.
29 source leads · 1999-2018
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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 S0003 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for TONERS at 139 LOWER BAGGOT STREET in DUBLIN CITY with HP CORRIGAN LIMITED as licensee.[1]
The Irish Times reported in 2018 that Bram Stoker was a frequent visitor to Toners and that W.B. Yeats once stopped there for a glass of sherry with Oliver St John Gogarty.[2]
The same Irish Times article said Toners Yard was renamed Tobin's for 48 hours to mark the 47th Hennessy Literary Awards winners.[2]
PubHub lore
Established
Trading since 1818 — among Dublin's oldest pubs.
Literary links
Said to be the only pub W.B. Yeats ever drank in. The story has him brought reluctantly by Senator Oliver St John 'Buck Mulligan' Gogarty, taking a sherry, and leaving without small talk. The snug where the visit took place is still in use.
Architecture
The front snug — small, partitioned, and protected from the rest of the bar — was rated Dublin's best snug out of more than 100 pubs in 2010. Toner's interior remains substantially Victorian.
Regulars
Bram Stoker is part of the pub's lore — the back-snug walls of Toner's are listed among the supposedly haunted spaces in Dublin's pub canon.
Reputation
A short list of Dublin pubs where the building, the snug, and the literary footnote all line up. Toner's is on it.
Community memory
Quick read
Short linked forum memory from people talking about this pub.
Boards.ie community memory
“The opposite of banned. I was in Toners in Baggot Street one quiet evening, and a drunk tried panhandling the few patrons...”
Are you banned from anywhere? · 2009“JohnnyFlash wrote: Was that the night in Toners after the rugby? You were steaming drunk that night. I hadn’t a clue what...”
Manager smoking while right next to me · 2015“I was in Toners Pub on Baggot St last week during the day and as soon as I entered through the door...”
The Time Warp Thread · 2005Forum memory, linked to the source thread. Request a rewrite, refresh, or removal if the wording or match is wrong.
Archive time depth
19 years of archive-metadata distance across 29 dated Boards.ie archive leads.
Flagship memory draft
Boards.ie gives Toners a useful forum-memory trail around old memories, characters and regulars, stories and gossip, story leads and rituals and house habits. PubHub is treating it as linked public memory, not settled fact.
The archive has 29 readable signals for Toners, 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: 7 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 29 unique Boards.ie URLs for review. The dated archive span visible on the page is 1999-2018.
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 Toners a source-linked forum-memory trail around old memories, regulars and room characters, stories and gossip, story leads and rituals and habits, with 29 readable signals preserved for review. The character lane adds 7 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 29 readable signals for Toners, 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 Toners 29 readable forum-memory signals around 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, story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, fragments that look like starting points for fuller memories or local stories 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.
2005 · atmosphere, memory, story
2008 · story
2015 · 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 Toners 29 readable forum-memory signals around 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, story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, fragments that look like starting points for fuller memories or local stories 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 7 signals for Toners: 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
Toners has 29 dated source leads from 1999 to 2018, giving the page a 19-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.
source_depth
PubHub has 29 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
Toners has 29 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, regulars and characters, stories and gossip, story leads and rituals and customs. The strongest current lead points into "The Time Warp Thread"; 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 7 regulars-or-room-texture signals.
2005 · atmosphere, memory, story · lead score 127
2015 · characters, memory · lead score 127
2008 · story · lead score 121
2015 · story · lead score 121
2009 · characters, rituals and customs · lead score 120
2015 · characters, memory · lead score 127
2009 · characters, rituals and customs · lead score 120
2002 · characters, memory · lead score 119
2002 · characters · lead score 118
2008 · characters · lead score 113
Archive profile
Toners has 29 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, regulars and characters, stories and gossip, story leads 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, regulars and characters, stories and gossip, story leads 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.
Regulars and characters
Boards.ie memory links this pub with regulars, bar characters, staff roles, or social texture around the room.
Stories and gossip
Boards.ie memory links this pub with story-shaped talk, gossip, rumours, and local claims worth surfacing as forum memory.
Story leads
Boards.ie memory contains fragments that look like starting points for fuller pub stories.
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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2018Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
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Boards.ie forum memory
Boards.ie memory links Toners with old memories, regulars and characters, stories and gossip, story leads 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.
Think this Boards.ie memory is wrong, unfair, missing context, or attached to the wrong pub? Send PubHub a correction and we will check the page. Contact PubHub.
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.
More Boards.ie snippets
“The opposite of banned. I was in Toners in Baggot Street one quiet evening, and a drunk tried panhandling the few patrons...”
Are you banned from anywhere? · 2009“I was in Toners Pub on Baggot St last week during the day and as soon as I entered through the door...”
The Time Warp Thread · 2005“JohnnyFlash wrote: Was that the night in Toners after the rugby? You were steaming drunk that night. I hadn’t a clue what...”
Manager smoking while right next to me · 2015“Typhoon. wrote: I heard the buses are stuck on ballybricken :eek: yeah 4 of em. Later one came down via toners corner...”
Its snowdeded · 2008