The excellent National Treasures series running on RTE at the moment brought up Brand New Retro's collection of content from an Irish attempt at a mens magazine from the 1970s, Man Alive
The first issue of this featured the first half of "Dublin on 50 Pubs a Day", a title parody of the famous Frommers "Europe on X Dollars a Day" guidebooks and - hopefully - a parody itself. If it isn't the alcohol intake by about pub five would kill most.
The article states they went to 29 pubs, however there are actually 36 listed which I can only assume is part of the joke. But how many could you get to today? Nine are closed and many more are completely rebuilt.
The journey makes some geographic sense except for the first hop, which is stated as being done by taxi. Most pubs that seem like omissions on the way now simply weren't there in 1974.
Part 2 was apparently in Issue 2, but is not amongst the pages digitised on Brand New Retro should it ever have been there at all.
The Pubs:
#1 N0600 Ashling Hotel - still trading
#2 Scotch House - long since gone, replacement building is itself being extensively rebuilt already
#3 Madigans - now S0005 JW Sweetman
#4 The Harp - now S0967 River Bar
#5 Dalys - N1195 Clifton Court Hotel
#6 N1063 The Plough - closed for years
#7 N1103 Wynns Hotel
#8 N1064 The Oval
#9 The Tower, Henry Street - closed
#10 Madigans, Moore Street - both locations it has been in closed
#11 Quiltys, Mary Street - haven't traced this one for definite
#12 Ye Olde Crescent, Mary Street - closed
#13 N1068 Slatterys
#14 Four Courts Bar - closed but most recently N0077 Fibbers Rock Bar
#15 Four Courts Hotel - closed
#16 Ormonde Hotel - closed
#17 S0140 Clarence Hotel
#18 Red Hackle - licence used for S0107 Czech Inn but premises has moved across a site
#19 S0083 The Oak Lounge
#20 The George - I am presuming this to be the current S0092 George
#21 S0111 The Old Stand. The next line mentions "The Strand" but I assume this is a typo.
#22 S0056 The Bailey
#23 1007394 Davy Byrnes
#24 Larry Tobins - S0012 The Duke
#25 Royal Hibernian Hotel - demolished 1983, licence may have been used for 1004917 Lemon & Duke which is on the site
#26 S0010 Dawson Lounge
#27 S0001 Kehoes
#28 Zodiac Bar now S0094 Bruxelles
#29 S0093 McDaids
#30 S0077 Nearys
#31 S0078 Sheehans
#32 The Clarendon, building replaced by S0080 Bar Rua
#33 McGowans, Stephen Street - closed
#34 1007337 Peters Pub
#35 Achesons - now S0131 Hairy Lemon
#36 Bartley Dunnes - site occupied by S3012 Grafton Capital Hotel
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