What survives in the archive
The trace is about repeated pub life: music, rituals, drinks, habits or occasions that people remembered well enough to leave behind in old discussion threads.
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Independent reporting and heritage records on this pub, drawn from a curated list of Irish news outlets, Revenue Commissioners, NIAH, and the Dictionary of Irish Architects. Every claim links to its primary source.
Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref GAP021 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for ROISIN DUBH at 8 DOMINICK STREET, GALWAY in CO. GALWAY with THE ROISIN DUBH PUB LIMITED as licensee.[1]
Galway Advertiser reported that Roisin Dubh won the IMRO Connacht Live Music Venue of the Year Award for 2010, after a year in which the Dominick Street venue staged acts including Wild Beasts, Villagers, Two Door Cinema Club, Mudhoney, and Greg Dulli.[2]
The Galway Advertiser later described the Roisin Dubh Comedy Clubh as a weekly upstairs-bar club launched in advance of the 2015 Comedy Carnival and co-developed by Roisin Dubh co-owner Kevin Healy and comedian Steve Bennett.[3]
Community memory
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What survives in the archive
The trace is about repeated pub life: music, rituals, drinks, habits or occasions that people remembered well enough to leave behind in old discussion threads.
Archive time depth
same-year archive trace across 1 dated Boards.ie archive lead.
Archive profile
Roisin Dubh appears in the archive through repeatable pub-life patterns: music, rituals, drinks, occasions or habits people thought worth mentioning. This is a prompt for richer local memory collection, not a final account.
Archive strength
Single archive trace
Memory shape
Atmosphere, nights out, music and rituals and life events
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Room atmosphere
A single archive signal points toward room feel and recurring impressions rather than a single verified fact.
Nights out
A single archive signal points toward nights out, recommendations and the everyday social use of the pub.
Music and rituals
A single archive signal points toward repeated customs, drinks, music, sessions or pub rituals attached to the place.
Life events
A single archive signal suggests the pub appears in personal timelines, occasions, plans or memories people carried forward.
Archive source trail
These are linked Boards.ie leads from pre-2026 discussion. PubHub shows the trail and the review category, but does not publish raw excerpts or private-person claims from automated matching.
2007Community memoryScore 9
Boards.ie archive trace
A pre-2026 Boards.ie discussion leaves a preliminary community-memory trace for Roisin Dubh, around atmosphere, nights out, music and rituals and life events. PubHub treats this as a single archive signal: useful for memory-page curation, not as verified fact.
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