Name: Donal Fallon The Dublin Pub Book Launch
Start: 2025-10-08T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-08T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Chapters Bookstore

Donal Fallon The Dublin Pub Book Launch

Chapters Bookstore

A free event to celebrate the book launch of Dublin's favourite Historian Donal Fallon. The follow up to 2022’s best-selling Three Castles B

Join us for this free event to celebrate the launch of "The Dublin Pub: A Social and Cultural History." Donal will be joined by one of Dublin's literary greats, Dermot Bolger, for a night that promises great stories, good craic and maybe a pint or two.For centuries, the public house has been an important part of the social and cultural history of Dublin. Beginning with the taverns and ale houses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this book brings the reader on a visual journey that passes through familiar institutions as well as much-lamented public houses that are no longer to be found. Along the way, we encounter characters as diverse and famous around the capital as Theobald Wolfe Tone, Nell McCafferty and Con Houlihan. Visitors to Dublin are here, as the photographer Lee Miller seeks out the city of James Joyce. The ‘Plain People of Ireland’ are present too, in chapters exploring everything from temperance to karaoke. The hidden histories of world-renowned public houses such as The Long Hall, Grogan’s and The Palace feature, as do the stories of Dublin’s early houses, gay bars and shebeens. Drawing from rich archival collections, The Dublin Pub includes previously unpublished photographs as well as oral recollections that bring the history of the Dublin pub to life. From the Irish revolution to social revolutions of more recent times, this is the story of the Dublin public house. DONAL FALLON is a historian and broadcaster with particular interest in the social history of the Irish capital. A founder of the popular Come Here To Me! blog in 2009, since 2019 he has presented the Three Castles Burning podcast, exploring the many histories of the Irish capital, which was adapted into Chapters Favourite Book of 2022, Three Castles Burning: A History of Dublin in Twelve Streets. He is a social historian to the 14 Henrietta Street museum and his other publications include 14 Henrietta Street: From Tenement to Suburbia (2021) and The Lamplighters of the Phoenix Park (2023). He is formerly Historian-in-Residence to Dublin City Council.

Donal Fallon The Dublin Pub Book Launch

More events from Chapters Bookstore

Discover more events from Chapters Bookstore, from Community to other experiences you might love.

Still looking for the right event?

Explore all events in Dublin 1 and filter by date, category, and more to find the perfect fit.

Donal Fallon The Dublin Pub Book Launch

More events from Chapters Bookstore

Discover more events from Chapters Bookstore, from Community to other experiences you might love.

You might also like...

Browse more events with different dates, prices, and formats to find your next great experience.

Still looking for the right event?

Explore all events in Dublin 1 and filter by date, category, and more to find the perfect fit.