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This week we interview the author of the Joe Swallow detective books, a series of 4 books about an investigator with the Dublin Metropolitan Police in 1880s Dublin. Swallow solves the most grizzly murders using scientific reasoning and his street wit. Along the way he meets interesting characters along the way, including some of the fiercest street gangs Dublin has ever had to offer, as well as a young poet by the name of Yeats and he also comes to be embroiled in a brewing political scandal involving Charles Stewart Parnell. Crucially for the purpose of this podcast, Swallow lived above a pub on Dublin's Thomas Street.
I met up with author Conor Brady in that very pub to discuss recreating Victorian Dublin, the history of policing, and the role of the pub in Dublin society of the time.
Conor Brady is a novelist, journalist, and academic. He was editor of the Irish Times for 16 years and has written extensively about the history of policing in Ireland. Enjoy!

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For nearly 100 years The Irish House pub caught the eye of Dubliners on the corner of Winetavern Street and Wood Quay. It was a bold political statement of a pub with romantic celtic depictions of irish wolfhounds, the maid of Erin, and the stone of destiny from the Hill of Tara. On its roof it had 6 round towers and below that depictions of Henry Grattan and Daniel O'Connell calling for Irish self determination. This is the story of The Irish House, the most beautiful pub in Dublin. How it came to be, how it was enjoyed and how it is now remembered.
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Have you ever wondered if anybody has ever visited every pub in Dublin? Surely not! Well, I’m here today to tell you that someone has indeed visited every one of them, had a pint in each one, and he did it in the space of 3 years. Oh yeah, and he’s not even Irish.
This is the extraordinary story of Yuya Abe, the Japanese man who, over the course of 3 years visited every single last pub in Dublin and became a folk hero.


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From 1927 to 2018 every pub in Ireland was bound by law to close their doors on Good Friday. Not a drop of alcohol was to be found in the country. Not legally anyway. In this episode we explore the legal loopholes around the ban, the hilarious stories of the publicans who were caught opening, and the day that the curtain came down on the law.


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This week's episode continues the journey to find all of the pubs in the work of Roddy Doyle. We focus on his love letter to Dublin pubs, called 'Love', his book about a man searching for his new local following a divorce, and his play 'Two Pints', and you can guess where that is set.


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Author of The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van, and many more award winning books, Roddy Doyle captures the voice of working class Dublin like no other. So many of his works include depictions of the Dublin pub that we decided to put together a comprehensive guide to pubs in the work of Roddy Doyle. From the local Barrytown pub, The Hikers Rest, to the city centre pub that Jimmy and Bimbo declare to have the best pint in Dublin. The pubs, the conversations and the Irish drinking philosophy.
This is part one and features The Barrytown books and films, capturing all the pints drank by Jimmy junior, his dad Jimmy senior and his sister Sharon.

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