Easter Sunday is an interesting day to go out in the city centre - virtually every pub and food venue is open, as are most newsagents and chemists but virtually no other shops. Jervis was shut, Arnotts was shut, Stephens Green was shut as so forth. It also meant that the pubs were a lot quieter than normal, meaning that I could go to Davy Byrnes without having to dodge hordes of tourists with books , regretting buying gorgonzola sandwiches.
The pub has a history beyond Joyce, including claims that the provisional government met upstairs in the late 1910s; but was renovated extensively in the 1930s or 40s so is not the Victorian pub you might expect.
Worth visiting if you can find a quiet time - avoiding the weeks around Bloomsday would be advisable!
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