We are headed to Ireland for the first time in July 2026 and are only there for two nights. We have booked the Book of Kells Experience and the Guiness Storehouse tour for day two.
We would like some ideas for; food/pub tours, don't miss pubs, especially interested in music and pub life. We are staying at the Mont Hotel.
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victoria, Canada
11599 posts
Absolutely can strongly recommend “Rural Pub Tours “ Dublin !
We’ve taken two of their tours in the past 10 years so the last one was only three years ago, but it was fun you go to these rural pubs and it’s like a mini bus not like that giant buses right I think our group had 10 people in it maybe so we did the one that was up in the Wicklow Mountain and then we did another one that went to some coastal towns highly highly recommend
Posted by
West Michigan
696 posts
Don't know where the Mont Hotel is, but we really liked eating at "The Bank on College Green". Beautiful place inside. Good food. Has a replica Book of Kells by the door.
For pubs, the oldest Pub in Dublin is the Brazen Head. Very old inside. Good pub food. If it's midday or early afternoon during the week, the Temple Bar really was a great place to hear music, but would probably be a zoo in the evenings or weekends. Another authentic local pub was Devitts, on lower Camden Street. Nothing special, just a very old, typical pub. But my Great-Great-Grandfather was Patrick Devitt, so I've decided it's his pub. I have the hat and t-shirt. Good Trad music upstairs in the evening, and good pub food.
I haven't been there, but I've read O'Donoghue's Pub on Suffolk street has good Trad music.
And we took the Guinness Storehouse tour a few weeks ago, it was excellent. Very well done. We even learned to play the drum there, and had a free beer on the top floor. We took a hop-on-hop-off Big Red Bus to get there, and to get around Dublin. Eoin was our bus driver/guide. He was excellent.
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California Central Coast 🐚
586 posts
We did the cocktail making class at the Jameson Distillery in Dublin. It was a lot of fun. I recommend it.
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victoria, Canada
11599 posts
Hi you contacted me about pub tour - but I don’t know how to post links
Just google
“ Rural Pub Tours “ Dublin - Wicklow mountains.
It’s easy to find - and has excellent reviews online too !
Wish we could post photos as I can do screen shots lol
I’m a tech dinosaur unfortunately