In a sea of stout, what makes Gravediggers’ Guinness so good? “There’s loads of science around it. It’s a self-fulling prophecy… because everyone knows the Guinness [there] is good. The more you’re drinking the Guinness, the more it flows and the fresher it is.”
Gravediggers’ is resolutely no-frills. “There’s no music; there’s no TV. It’s a pilgrimage for Guinness people.”
And it’s not just a clever name: the pub is located beside the Glasnevin Cemetery, the final resting place of Irish revolutionaries and artists including Maud Gonne and Brendan Behan. “There’s nothing else apart from the graveyard,” says Dalton. “You have to go out of your way to get there, and it makes it more rewarding.”
Apart from the perfect pour and a “good crowd” that “spills out into the streets”, Dalton rates Gravediggers’ traditional Irish dishes like coddle (bacon, potato, sausage and onion stew): “If you’re in a pub and it’s winter and it goes with the Guinness and you want something warm.”
Address: 1 Prospect Square, Glasnevin, Dublin, D09 CF72
Phone: +353872963713
Instagram: @gravediggers2
