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23, 24 AND 25 CAMDEN STREET AND 40 CAMDEN ROW, Dublin

Address23, 24 AND 25 CAMDEN STREET AND 40 CAMDEN ROW
CountyDublin
EircodeD02 H527
Phone+35314780766
Websitewww.whelanslive.com
Licence refS0120
🚬 Smoking area

🏭 Heritage-listed building

NIAH building record

Built: c.1740 · NIAH rating: Regional

This public house forms a dramatic impression on the street, with a vigorous ground floor pubfront attributed to J.J. O'Callaghan. The use of carved limestone and polished granite provides a pleasing contrast with the red brick to the upper floors and neighbouring buildings. Its execution is testament to the high level of craftsmanship in the Victorian period. It retains some historic interior fabric. This building may date to the mid-eighteenth century, possibly having been refaced in the nineteenth century.

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What the archives say

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Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref S0120 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for WHELANS at 23, 24 and 25 Camden Street and 40 Camden Row in Dublin city, with WHELANS LIVE DAC as licensee.[1]

The Irish Times wrote in 2000 that actor and businessman Gary Whelan had transformed Burke's traditional Dublin bar on Wexford Street into Whelan's music venue about ten years earlier.[2]

The Irish Times reported that about 400 people attended Ed Sheeran's 2015 VH1 Storytellers gig at Whelan's and that Sheeran chose the venue after seeing Damien Rice play there.[3]

The Irish Times reported that Arcade Fire gave a secret acoustic performance at Whelan's in 2017 after performing at Malahide Castle.[4]

Sources  (4)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. Irish Times · "An Irishman's Diary" · 2000-01-22
  3. Irish Times · "Ed Sheeran gig a 'triumph' - but not to fans left out in cold" · 2015-01-25
  4. Irish Times · "Watch: Arcade Fire play new track Creature Comfort at secret gig in Whelan's" · 2017-06-15

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Established

Built between c.1740 and c.1760.

Architecture

O'Callaghan. The use of carved limestone and polished granite provides a pleasing contrast with the red brick to the upper floors and neighbouring buildings. Its execution is testament to the high level of craftsmanship in the Victorian period. It retains some historic interior fabric.

Community memory

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  1. The best pint of Guinness in Dublin/Ireland · score 5

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