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Best pub for older generation (with trad music)

IpreDictDeatH · 2009-03-25 19:45:23

My parents are staying in the gresham for a weekend and they were asking me did i know of any good pubs which played ballads/trad music but wasnt too mental. Unfortunetly for them whenever im in town im usually a bit tipsy and the names and location of each pub usually get lost to the back of my mind by the next day. Can…

25-03-2009 8:45pm

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IpreDictDeatH

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My parents are staying in the gresham for a weekend and they were asking me did i know of any good pubs which played ballads/trad music but wasnt too mental. Unfortunetly for them whenever im in town im usually a bit tipsy and the names and location of each pub usually get lost to the back of my mind by the next day. Can anyone help?

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#2 25-03-2009 8:47pm

admiralofthefleet

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the celt and o sheas on talbot street play trad. the celt is mainly packed with tourists though.
get the dart to howth and go to the pier house, maybe they still do a trad session on sunday mornings

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#3 25-03-2009 8:48pm

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I'd say O'Shea's Merchants, lower bridge st (before the bridge to Church st)

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#4 28-03-2009 2:22pm

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O'Sheas Merchant the better of the 2 O'Shea pubs by a long way, the Talbot St pub and the Celt are both packed with tourists.....

Brgds
Johnny

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