A 1985 edition of Inner City Magazine containing two advertisements, one photograph and two reviews of Dublin pubs.
Front cover of Inner City Magazine (Vol. 3 / No. 19, 1985)
The first advertisement is for The Sunset House at 1 Summerhill Parade in Ballybough. It shows two older woman named Ellen and Carmel enjoying a glass of Guinness. The pub was the scene of a fatal shooting in April 2016 and closed down. It was recently taken over by Paul Gannon, the brother of Social Democrats councillor Gary, and re-opened as The Brendan Behan.
Advertisement for The Sunset House
The second advertisement is for the Hill 16 bar at 28 Gardiner Street. Offering “best drinks – pub grub”, it shows a barman pulling pints behind the counter.
Advertisement for the Hill 16 Bar
A photograph in the magazine shows a burnt out property immediately next door to the Hill 16.
Photograph of Hill 16 beside burn out property.
The issue also includes reviews by Tony Ivory of Patrick Conway’s at 70 Parnell Street, closed since February 2008, and J. J. Whelan’s at 69 Summerhill, which is currently known as ‘Cuchulainn’s at Croke Park‘.
Ivory described Conway’s as one of the “best known and most popular haunts” in the city centre. There is no television and the Guinness (£1.33 pint) is “usually good”. However, the writer did complain that the toilets were not sufficient for the amount of punters and the cigarette machine didn’t stock his favoured brands.
The review of J. J. Whelan’s focused on the high standard of the Guinness (£1.27 pint) which Ivory called “one of the best that can be had anywhere in Dublin”.
Reviews of Conways, Parnell Street and J. J. Whelan’s in Summerhill
