The last of the three Eagle House pubs that Dublin had until recently - with Glasthules one now being the Greedy Eagle and Dundrums becoming Pye since my visits to both. Whether this means that this Eagle will be renamed, or gain a prefix, due to my brief presence I don't know!
Of course, Eagle is an oddly common bit of a pub name in Dublin - there being a Bald and a Legal also - so it isn't that odd that two pubs with it have have re-openings in the past while. But back to the this remaining Eagle House
A pub of many levels - not quite as baffling as the insides of N2307 O'Connells for instance; and its clearly due to being built on a mild hill, but it may be a tad hard to navigate this pub after a skinful.
There was a turned off, formerly backlit Beamish sign advertising its comparative cheapness - well, it is fairly cheap; but they have actually backed away from this marketing tack recently. Regardless, this was the cheapest of the pubs I visited in this area, from memory.
James Joyce's mother was born on this site, which gives this pub a stronger Joycean connection than many that actually push that as a thing; albeit I don't think you will find it particularly easy to drag tourists out here on a Joycean Pub Tour.
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