It was a trick the evidently worked because, as I’m sure you will know, the corner is still referred to as Doyle’s. And John Doyle fancied he might usurp Dunphy and in setting about doing this, he acquired both number 160 and number 66 Phibsborough Road and placed within each of them a public house which bore his name. So in the mid-1890s or so along came John Doyle. Those familiar with the first half of Ulysses, might remember that Poor Dignam went the very same way along that route in the earlier stages of the book. And Peadar might have been working on a subliminal as well as a perceptible level here because ‘going round Dunphy’s Corner‘, as it would have been put, was seemingly an idiom used to describe those who had gone to the great beyond, given its nodal point on the route taken by hearses on their way to Glasnevin. It gets a mention in Peadar Kearney’s anti-enlistment Ballad about the recruiting sergeant William Bailey ( Lankum do a great version), who is said to have stood on the corner in the process of his enlisting. The name Dunphy’s Corner must have been widely used by Dubliners because it’s well represented in song, literature and lore. The pub that provided this named was owned by a man named Thomas Dunphy who presided over it from the mid-1800s up to around the 1890s. The name Dunphy’s Corner was derived from another public house which sits directly across the road from The Bohemian – now named Doyle’s Corner, formerly named Doyle’s.
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Now, this is where it starts to get a bit confusing because the word Doyle is about to be bandied about as much as it might do in a series or two of Father Ted. Back around the turn of the century, the intersection of The North Circular and The Phibsborough Road was known as Dunphy’s Corner. Doyle’s Corner has an interesting history of which this particular pub is a part of. And given that The Bohemian is situated on Doyle’s Corner it seems an apt subject.
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