Each month Dublin recorded 10000 entries

Black, yellow, white. Dublin will change color. The freckles is marginalized with the flow of the immigrants working in this new eldorado. And with this human brewing, nocturnal habits have evolved. Pubs still exist. There are still more than 700 in the capital of the Green Erin, but now they share the night with locations connected business, combining the modern and the old.

To understand why Dublin has become one of the most popular European cities by the Club, it is necessary to do a little bit of economic history. We are at the end of the 20th century, computer giants landed in Ireland. Their call centers recruit strangers to meet their European customers. The explosion of the Internet is a little more boost this phenomenon. It is well known: once a job was found, should seek shelter. At the time, real estate has an impressive boom and imposes the cranes in the Dublin landscape. Labour is then imported en masse from Eastern Europe. The Poles thus become the first foreign community before the Chinese. About 150,000 people!

New with the old

The economic revival of the Ireland between 4 and 8 of growth in the years and unemployment that levelled off at 4.5 adds some social layers and also encourages the last Irish emigrants to return to the fold. Each month, Dublin recorded 10,000 entries. To meet new and richer, customers looking for new tastes and flavours, hospitality and catering adapt. Openings are multiplying. 30 Licences are granted every month. But it is not enough. Indeed, in the evening, the streets of Dublin are crowded. "Irish love out, go to the cinema, theatre or attend a concert," explains Mary, interpreter. There are the tail in restaurants, bars, pubs and hotels. Before this overflow, the Irish come even to rent the prohibition of smoking in public places. Result: since 2004 a part of consumers are found on the sidewalk and is the party in the street!

Baile Atha Cliath, Dublin Gaelic ("the city of the fording of Reed Hedges"), is therefore perpetual moult. The Irish are masters in the art of the new with the old. Guinness and Jameson, two brands of drink globally known, soon reclaimed their Brownfields. The Brewer has built the building of fermentation of St. James's Gate, to the glory of his "stout", the most famous dark beer. Floor after floor, visitors discover the stages of the manufacture of the thick beverage, leading to its Summit at the Gravity bar. There, waiting for him a Guinness and a panoramic view over the city and its most salient monuments, the Phoenix Park Dublin Mountains in the distance from the tip of Howth. Irish Distillers preserved stones and beams of the Old Jameson Distillery in Bow Street and added new aluminum and glass structures to a museum on the Uisce Beatha (brandy, in Gaelic), become the whiskey. Here also, visit balance by a wine tasting.

More dramatic was the energy with which the owners of pubs of Temple Bar, in association, dusted and restored colours to their district from 1991. Located south of the Liffey, the "small Seine of Dublin", it became the attraction of foreign tourists, for liesse, joy and especially intoxication. Fitzsimons, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Temple Bar, The Auld Dubliner and The Porterhouse are addresses essential, disseminating beers and traditional music, up to 1 hour of the morning (from Thursday to Sunday).

Of classicism, new pubs have kept that beer "at the tap" (pressure). Dishes and wines enrich their card. The moods differ with the architecture of the site. Dawson Street is home to the most iconic representatives of this new wave, near Grafton Street, Dublin the liveliest artery. Samsara, Ron Black's and Café in Seine who sit side by side, cultivate the exotic, Art Deco in large volumes. They take more Parisian café that the traditional pub. Palm trees and lush vegetation, rooms cosy, comfortable armchairs, verrières, piano, mirrors, statues, the consumer is transported elsewhere. Trendy restaurants and superpubs, as call it not without irony of the Dubliners, invest places various and most unusual of the city. To the South of the Liffey. This does not mean that the North is deserted. The District of Capel Street is becoming. Last July, British Chief starry Michelin, Gary Rhodes, is opened with great fanfare its Rhodes D7 brewery. Nearby, the bar-restaurant John M Keating religiously took possession of St. Mary's old church. This side of the river also has the advantage of serving the cheapest pints less than 4 euros.

The East, towards the sea, is the strongest development, and therefore... of the building. The brand of the IFSC business district is enriched recently the bar-restaurant Ely CHQ. This offshoot of the popular Ely Wine Bar has refurbished an old warehouse of wine. Conversion successful, but it is not the only one.

At the gates of Trinity College, The Bank elected home in the premises of The Royal Bank of Ireland Ltd., whose plaque still shines left of the great oak door. Inside the quotes and flat screens do not used with marble from the pillars and the canopy. On Harcourt Street station became the Odeon. A warehouse on Fade Street hosts The Market Bar.

Altruism and hospitality

The hotels are not at rest. They are not reluctant to allow the barge to a glass or dish. An opportunity to see their interiors. Overlooking the River, The Clarence must its notoriety to its Octagon Bar, cocktails and, above all, to two of its owners, Bono and The Edge, the stars of the rock group U2. Located on Wellington Quay, this facility built in 1852 was renovated in 1996 and equipped with a multimedia installation of the art. The decoration was entrusted to Guggi, former member of the post-punk group Virgin Prunes. In the face, North side, the Morrison and bar of the same name welcome a shadowy public in an exotico-contemporary environment. The Merrion hides its Cellar Bar in its vaulted cellars of the 18th century. And Central Hotel, Exchequer Street its vintage Library Bar on the first floor. After some time, its rooms revert only client privilege. The Palm of originality is however the last entrant, Dylan, Eastmoreland place. It is a bawdy of colors and styles. Owners have set the bar very high. Rest to know if the old lady of Dublin the Shelbourne at St. Stephen's Green, scheduled to reopen in February, will be better.

Although subject to external influences, the people of the cru in have not lost their altruism and sense of hospitality. As shown in the currency of the Brazen Head, the oldest pub in Dublin, and even Ireland: "there is no foreigners here, only friends you have ever met" (1).

"You do stay never alone long." "After five minutes, people come to see you, they are concerned about your loneliness and engage the conversation," reflects Philippe, who led a group of spirits there. The "going out" on Thursday and Friday and the "eating out" on Saturday are moments of generosity, friendship, and usability. This is especially true in the old pubs. Do not hesitate to depart from the tourist circuits and to venture into these keepers of the values of the Green Erin lairs: the Brazen Head (eight centuries of existence!) on Bridge Street, the Stags Head (more than Centennial), located in Dame Court, or even the Long Hall sis South Great George Street. "I like having human contacts." It is ten years that I go to the Stags Head. "The staff is the same," says Paul, singer of the pop-rock group Bell X 1. "Locals", neighbourhood pub, also kept this in mind. The "regulars" (regulars) found the evening after dinner, served in General between 18 and 19 hours. The atmosphere is relaxed. "Powered" discussions

In a few years, the diversity of places of celebration has led the Dubliners to abandon the "pub crawl", the tour of the bars, other nocturnal escapades that include two or three addresses issue of varying the atmospheres and the pleasures. A way of travelling grayed out in this capital, become a hub. "Enjoy yourself!