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Quiet pubs in Dublin city

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  • 03-11-2014 9:50am
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    mikemac1
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    I have searched but the last thread I could find was 2009

    Went on a first date in Lagoona bar in the IFSC which started great and but soon enough they were blasting mid week football. And I mean LOUD. I know I could have asked the staff to turn it down a bit but well I wasn't on my own so didn't.

    Tried to find somewhere quiet yesterday for some lunchtime bar food during the second date :) and again football on top volume where we went.

    Good people of Dublin forum, are there pubs in this fine city that are quiet, don't have the TV blaring (not just football because some have the 6pm news for example) and a conversation can be had at ease? Music at a decent level is grand

    I know the tourist activities, zoo, splash tour, guinness storehouse & others but I don't know pubs.

    I promise I searched, no recent threads at all


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    ec18
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    the brew dock down by the abbey street luas stop is quiet they don't have music blaring or any tvs, grand central on o'Connell street and the dawson lounge maybe?


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    Birneybau
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    Grogans.

    To be fair, yesterday was the Manchester derby in the football, always gonna get crowds.


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    Hanley
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    Market Bar? I don't think they even play music in there.


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    odyssey06
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    The Duke on Duke Street off Grafton Street.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    whiskeyman
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    Nearys on Chatham Street
    The Duke on Duke Street
    Chaplins on Hawkins Street


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    Cathmandooo
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    Peter's Pub on South William Street


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    Ciaran_B
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    Mulligans on Poolbet St. One side has televisions, the other doesn't.
    The Palace on Fleet St. TV in the front area but not the room in the back.
    Against The Grain on Wexford St. Not a TV to be seen.


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    miamee
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    The Stag's Head on Dame Lane, Long Hall on George's Street.


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    jimmii
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    Any of the Galway Bay brewery bars should do the trick none of them have TVs as far as I know. There's 4 in town and 1 in Blackrock.

    http://www.galwaybaybrewery.com/bars/


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    Danger_dave1
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    I'd recommend Chaplins on Hawkins street as well. Quality pub


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    uch
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    The Sackville Lounge, just off O'Connell Street in Sackville Place

    21/25



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    dquinnan
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    Long Hall on Georges Street.


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    Dave!
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    O'Neill's on Pearse Street is nice.


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    A Neurotic
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    +1 on the Galway Bay bars. Lovely bars with no annoying sports drowning out conversation. Also Oscar's in Smithfield (and a new one around Christchurch which I haven't visited yet).


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    TCDStudent1
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    Was in the bar in the O'Callaghan Davenport Hotel on Merrion Square recently. Thought it would be a perfect place for a date. Classy, quiet so easy to chat, nice seats so comfortable , friendly staff (who might provide table service if not busy), food if you want to eat. There is a TV but just a small one and wasnt turned up when I was there (and there was a match on)

    People often say the Library bar. That place is perfect IF you know you will get a seat when you arrive. But as its so small, you might not get a seat. And not a good start to a date if you cant get a seat! It can be awkward when you have to stand up but you are on third date now, so all that awkwardness is probably gone! :-)


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    gaiscioch
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    I intensely dislike tvs blaring in pubs while I'm trying to have a quiet chat with friends, so I'd be interested in suggestions here also. I love quiet pubs with snugs. Some of the best nights ever have been chats in such pubs without somebody else's noise been imposed on our conversation. Bad manners.

    Grogans has already been mentioned. Other than that I can only think of The Gravediggers at Glasnevin cemetery. It's a 25 minute walk from O'Connell Street, but worth every minute of it.
    Club Chonradh na Gaeilge on Harcourt Street is one of the few places in Dublin city centre where you'll be able to carry on a good conversation without tv or music trying to drown it out in the name of "progress". Long live the "dead pubs"!


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    Sir Gallagher
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    Hanley wrote: »
    Market Bar? I don't think they even play music in there.

    Market bar quiet? Really?


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    Birneybau
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    Sir Gallagher wrote: »
    Market bar quiet? Really?

    Weird acoustics in that place, seems to amplify all conversations.


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    Slattsy
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    Chaplins
    Bowes


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    John Mason
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    brew dock
    the library bar
    the duke
    the gingerman
    peters bar


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    xalot
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    the Library bar in the Central hotel.


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    JuliusCaesar
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    uch wrote: »
    The Sackville Lounge, just off O'Connell Street in Sackville Place

    Great place, except for the sport blaring off the tv.


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    uch
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    JuliusCaesar wrote: »
    Great place, except for the sport blaring off the tv.

    I've often asked them to turn it off in the Afternoons and there's no problem

    21/25



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    TCDStudent1
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    Quiet pub on a Friday evening, any ideas? Shouldnt be too dead though.


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    Slattsy
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    TCDStudent1 wrote: »
    Quiet pub on a Friday evening, any ideas? Shouldnt be too dead though.

    Chaplins.


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    TCDStudent1
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    Slattsy wrote: »
    Chaplins.

    hmm, never actually in Chaplins. Thank you.


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