Beer Appreciation Courses
Dublin Bar Academy, located on Francis Street in Dublin 8, has teamed up with the Vanguard Beer Collective to run a series of beer appreciation courses over eight months
Restaurant Review: Camden Exchange
We freak out over our Gubbeen cheddar and chive croquettes. They’re so good! Little fried balls of cheese coated in breadcrumbs. Simple but decadent pub food. It looks like Camden…
Album Review: Braids – Deep in the Iris
Braids differentiated themselves from the mire post-Animal Collective remember-thems earlier this year with the release of single Miniskirt.
Album Review: Simon Joyner – Grass, Branch & Bone
Joyner returns with another heartbroken transmission from a dank Midwestern basement.
Album Review: Skelocrats – Bella Bella
Our very own little local super-group, Skelocrats, are back with their first LP proper, and it is, of course, a belter.
Dublin Book Doctors
If you’re an avid reader, an enthusiastic member of a local book club, or both, it can sometimes be hard to know exactly what to read next, particularly if your…
Good Things Come In Threes
At Totally Dublin we’ve found ourselves, issue on issue, interviewing a certain type of person. Across the country there’s a set of inspired folks who are tracing new paths of
Love is the Law: Nathalie Weadick & Carla Killeen
I proposed to Nathalie about 2 weeks after we first met, I knew straight away she was the one for me. I know she thought I was a bit bonkers…
Love is the Law: Etain Kidney & Michelle Walls
"It didn’t take them long to see that my relationship with Etain was just as loving and normal as those of my sisters who were straight."
Love is the Law: Peter Sztal & Frank Kavanagh
Love is inclusive of all and not exclusive or conditional – end of! I find it funny that people are going to a ballot box to say how I should…
Barfly – Candlelight Bar
Located above the ever popular Siam Thai, the Candlelight Bar’s dimly lit interior seems to lend itself to close knit conversations.
Love is the Law: Przem Shrem Zając & Les Cullinan
New Year’s Eve 2013 is when we got engaged but decided to postpone any further plans on the matter hoping for the good news to arrive on 22nd May as…
Barfly – Arthur Mayne’s
Under the same ownership as its rebel county namesake, a landmark chemist-turned-wine-bar, Arthur Mayne’s has set up shop in the heart of Donnybrook.
Recipe: Temple Bar Food Market Goat Tagine Makfoul
All the ingredients for the following recipe can be found in the Temple Bar Food Market, including store cupboard ingredients
The Happy Prints: Natalie B Coleman Interview
Multi award winning fashion designer Natalie B Coleman creates enchanting clothing which inhabit a dreamy world of memory and storytelling. Since establishing her label in 2011, her designs have been…
Album Review: Jim O’Rourke – Simple Songs
Simple Songs feeds directly into the lineage of his Drag City material. While 2009’s The Visitor was cut from the same sonic cloth, that cloth was used to make curtains,…
Album Review: Cloud – Zen Summer
From the get-go Zen Summer elicits the feeling of toasting one’s forearm out an open car window, moving quickly, squinting into the horizon, destination inconsequential
Book Review: A Fortunate Man – John Berger
John Berger is a writer predominantly concerned with that rather nebulous term: experience.