“My goodness my Guinness” is the massive advertisement painted on the exterior wall, yet they also serve Beamish stout. It’s partially ornate behind the bar with a centrepiece clock ticking; however, the clientele are questionable and suspicious, invariably falling into an unwelcoming silence if ever a newcomer has the cheeky temerity to enter. Our sole visit was dominated by a gargantuan TV screen loudly broadcasting then-Taoiseach Enda Kenny's Paddy's Day visit to the USA in 2017, the quaking Irish leader dwarfed by the White House's elephantine and largely orange incumbent. The pub also makes a cameo in Ulysses, at a time when it was known as Dan Bergin's. [1]
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[1] Opposite Lloyd’s can be found a very fine Victorian building (no.47 Amiens Street) which used to be Burke’s Bar, long since shut. How is this beauty just lying idle?
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