| Johnnie Fox's Pub in Dublin
Chowder, Open Seafood Sandwiches, etc. are just a sample of the delicacies available and I suggest you treat yourself to one of those 'special coffees', with the exotic name tags.
No doubt, you will enjoy, the food, craic and entertainment when you sojourn at Johnnie Fox's, but it will probably be its sheer authenticity and traditional old world charm, that will cast an indelible spell on you. The rough-stone floor flags, always strewn with sawdust, the crackling logs on the open hearths, the antique woods of the old dressers, furniture, etc. and the sight of the now muted, mountain Shanakee, make this pub, inimitable to the pretender. Lots of ancient memorabilia, including kettles, crockery, old prints, sewing machines, guns, books, farm implements, horse tackle, pigs head and 'famous heads', further adorn this 'Alladin's Cave' of dates, memory-lane bric-a-brac.
Proprietors Anthony & Geraldine McMahon attribute the success of these premises to the fact that there is always a constant buzz exuded and as the large local fraternity will confirm 'the craic is always mighty'. Johnnie Fox's is where the nostalgic solidity and culture of yesteryear, is immortalised and lovingly maintained, making the establishment a prominent market leader, in today's Irish Licensed industry. The aficionado of the real Irish pub will confirm that the authenticity of Johnnie Fox's, needs no further adornment - just a visit!
Glencullen House a three minute walk from Johnnie Fox's has connections with Daniel O'Connell, Michael Collins, Countess Markievicz, the Yeats sisters to mention a few notables who helped steer the course of Irish history. O'Connells daughter, Ellen O'Connell married Christopher Fitz-Simon in 1825.
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