Peadar Kearney’s

This is a great pub right on Dame Street in the heart of the city. They have live music on many nights and are right next door to the Olympia Theatre so its a great spot to grab a few drinks before a show if you are heading next door.

Really great Irish pub with great live music. If you are after a proper irish night out this is definitely the place to go to. However, it can get extremely crowded and saw a few people being a bit aggressive

An absolutely 5 star pub… I only went there on Friday and Saturday but this was one of the best pub experience I’ve ever had! You have to be there on weekend when BRIAN BRODY is playing! !!

I would say this palace is your average pub, but Brian Brody (their local performer) gave it another star for me. He is a great performer and a lot of fun to watch live. My only compliant is that no one was really dancing? Must be an Irish thing.. .. cause this american was cutting a rug. Or maybe it was just the night I was there? Beer is cheap and its smaller on the inside. It appeared that people wanted to listen to the music and not dance. Which is odd to me, because I always dance like no one is watching!
PS only went to the upstairs area.

This place is a Spot on! Good music, nice ambient, friendly staff. € 3.50 pints mon-​fri until 7pm and until 5pm sat-​sun

Un muy buen bar en Dublín donde pasar unas buenas tardes con una pinta y escuchar a gente con una voz bastante buena cantar.

Homesick Americans can come here and meet other Americans whose cousin was your roommate in the first year of college. That DID happen last night. Ground floor is a standard Irish pub but, as an American, I always head right downstairs and go to the beer pong and proper jaegerbombs. I’m sure you could also play flip cup on one of the other tables if you so desire.

I’m gonna disagree with the previous reviewer who makes this quaint little pub sound like a full moon party E-​fest. Peadars is a great pub and is decorated in true traditional Dublin style. The staff and management are friendly and professional. Even though it’s a traditional Dublin pub, there are still staff behind the bar who are well known and reputed in the world of mixology. Have a look around the walls to see the numerous international mixology awards won by James, one of the owners.
They have live music on seven days a week and the only techno parties downstairs are actually private bookings and nothing to do with the management of the pub itself.
During the summer, when its warm enough to open the front of the pub up completely, this is when it comes into its own. Absolutely impossible to walk past without stopping in for a quick pint.
Important note; € 3.50 pints mon-​fri until 7pm and until 5pm sat-​sun

Peadar Kearney’s is one of those weird places around the Christ Church area of Dublin (McGruders is another one) that serves the dual function of being a common or garden regular old man-​esque pub most of the time, and then turning into mad techno music hot-​spots on Fridays and Saturdays, then back to old man pubs without anyone passing comment.
Upstairs (as in the ground floor), Peadar Kearney’s is your average, run-​of-​the-​mill pub, like so many others on Dame St. Very pleasant to pass a rainy afternoon with a few pints of stout there but otherwise, nothing spectacular of unusual to write home about.
Then downstairs is this mad club room, where they play electronic house music and everybody gets out of their brackets. A couple of years ago, this used to happen on a weekly basis, when the downstairs was known as ‘Rogue’, and they used to get some savage guest djs. These days, there are dance music gigs on again, but they don’t take place on a regular basis, so you have to keep an eye out for them.
The downstairs is mad, the upstairs is nice enough as such places go, but I doubt that there is much of a crossover between the two floors’ patrons.