Established
Trading since 1818 — among Dublin's oldest pubs.
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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
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What survives in the archive
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Archive profile
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Memory shape
Drinks and taps and old memories
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Drinks and taps
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Old memories
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Boards.ie direct mention trace
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