The bar is large, open-plan and airy with high stacked shelves and a clock tower perched above the handsome carved bar. A fine selection of solid comfortable furnishings, carved open fireplace and plenty of areas for intimate conversation or to relax among friends. This is a good atmospheric pub with a jovial group of regulars and visitors. The service is always excellent and the carvery lunches first class. They do a great selection of club burgers, pastas, excellent steaks and salads. Finger food is available for all parties and functions.

Retaining all the old world charm with every modern convenience. A great place to go to for lunch or in the evenings particularly after a nice walk round the village. As well as winning a ‘Dining Pub of the Year Award’ three times in the recent past, the Sheeran family have also collected the 'Black and White Pub of the Year Award' on four separate occasions, so you know the standards will always be high.

The History of ‘The Club’ Dalkey

The Club shares with Dalkey a very interesting past. The premises was first licensed as the ‘Queenstown Tavern’ in 1847 as a pub, private dwelling and community morgue. In those tragic, famine-stricken, distant says of 1847, many of those families who starving bodies perished by the roadside were taken to the morgue before burial. At that time sea-faring mortality was particularly high and the Dublin Dalkey tram often carried many of the sailors’ bodies to the community morgue at 107 Coliemore road.

Moving on to the 20th century, it is remembered that for a brief period the premises at Coliemore Road was once owned by a priest! When the owner at the time, Anne Williams, died in a city orphanage of advanced senility on the 3rd February 1928, she willed the premises to the Rev. Fr. Cannon John Kelly who was the parish Priest of Sandyford at that time. Fr. Kelly held on to the premises for 11 months before he sold it to an Edward Murphy on the 16th January 1929 for the majestic sum of £350.

By this time the Dalkey area had become an exclusive and much sought after location by aristocrats and so it was not surprising that in 1944, the ‘Queenstown Tavern’ changed its name to its current title – ‘The Club’.

‘The Club’ however did not reach its full potential until in 1969 it was purchased by its present owner Seamus Sheeran, a widely travelled and decisive businessman. Seamus and his wife Kathleen’s youngest son David is now actively involved in the day to day running of the business and has continued to operate to the highest standards.

Today, the Club is recognised as one of Dublin’s most distinctive pubs and is was a favourite social haunt the late Hugh Leonard. The Club has won ‘Pub of the Year‘ on four separate occasions – a record that has not yet been beaten by any premises in Dublin. The food trade conducted at the club is one of its major sources of attraction and popularity.

Lunch Served: Carvery 6 days a week Mon-Fri 12.30pm -3.00pm Sun 12.30pm -3.30pm Dinner Served: Early Bird: Mon-Fri 3.00pm - 7.30pm A la Carte: Mon-Fri 3.00pm - 9.30pm Saturday 12.30pm - 9.30pm Sunday 3.30pm - 9.00pm