Lisa Grimm
@lisagrimm.com
DAM nerd. Nat'l Library of Ireland Board. USian in Dublin. Beer judge & podcaster @beerladiespod & blog @weirdodublinpubs. Ex-archaeologist/archivist. Runner. Theatre nerd. Whovian. Transit enthusiast. Geek mom to cats/humans. She/her. lisagrimm.com
A great day out! We must do it again.
Thank you to everyone who came to the Craic Beer Community trip to Wicklow Wolf yesterday and for making it a huge success! It was a really interesting tour and was great to share some delicious beer with great people!
#DrinkIrish #CraicBeer #WicklowBeer #IrishBeer
#DrinkIrish #CraicBeer #WicklowBeer #IrishBeer
February 1, 2026 at 1:12 PM
A great day out! We must do it again.
Can we also discuss the contraption the soda bread is served in, per the article? I have…questions.
February 1, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Can we also discuss the contraption the soda bread is served in, per the article? I have…questions.
I quite enjoy the beer (when I can get it), but feel similarly about the taproom itself.
BLOG POST: “Not only is the interior lacking character but actually felt to us rather cold and austere... We found ourselves comparing it to the reception area of an apartment hotel in Vienna, or a branch of Wagamama.” 🍺🍻
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Looking again at The Kernel
We’ve always felt out of step when it comes to London brewery The Kernel. Why do others love their beer while we’re left cold? When we posted about our transcendent experience at the Saint Mars of the...
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February 1, 2026 at 11:52 AM
I quite enjoy the beer (when I can get it), but feel similarly about the taproom itself.
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The GPO beautifully illuminated for Brigit 2026 ✨
February 1, 2026 at 11:08 AM
The GPO beautifully illuminated for Brigit 2026 ✨
And speaking of the bank holiday…don’t forget the LAKE OF BEER.
February 1, 2026 at 11:42 AM
And speaking of the bank holiday…don’t forget the LAKE OF BEER.
Yesterday was a busy day. Today is also a busy day - youth musical theatre by day, Brigid activities in the afternoon, Uncanny live tonight. Grateful for the bank holiday tomorrow…
Beer Ladies on tour: at Parkrun and at Wicklow Wolf with Katie & @lisagrimm.com.
February 1, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Yesterday was a busy day. Today is also a busy day - youth musical theatre by day, Brigid activities in the afternoon, Uncanny live tonight. Grateful for the bank holiday tomorrow…
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For the weekend that's in it, why not read a Life of St Brigid, or, Betha Brigte. An Leabhar Breac (RIA MS 23 P 16) contains a copy of the Life on starting on p. 61. You can see the "incipit" (Latin for "beginning") outlined in red pigment here, with Brigte spilling over from one line onto another.
January 30, 2026 at 3:55 PM
For the weekend that's in it, why not read a Life of St Brigid, or, Betha Brigte. An Leabhar Breac (RIA MS 23 P 16) contains a copy of the Life on starting on p. 61. You can see the "incipit" (Latin for "beginning") outlined in red pigment here, with Brigte spilling over from one line onto another.
Love, love, love @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social’s piece mentioned here.
GOOD MORNING! Here's this week's edition of news, nuggets and longreads, with thoughts on publicans with personality, among other things. 🍻🍺
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News, nuggets and longreads 31 January 2026: Flowers for the Judge
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Bavaria, Egerland and Guildford. First, what might be good news, via Jeff Alworth: family-owned German b...
boakandbailey.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Love, love, love @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social’s piece mentioned here.
❤️😔
January 30, 2026 at 6:35 PM
❤️😔
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college/uni/grad school/etc
Folksong & Folkdance (Morris dancing with the late, great Tony Barrand)
The Printed Book in the West to 1900
Aegean Prehistory
Evaluating Rare Books & Manuscripts
Folklore on Film
Folksong & Folkdance (Morris dancing with the late, great Tony Barrand)
The Printed Book in the West to 1900
Aegean Prehistory
Evaluating Rare Books & Manuscripts
Folklore on Film
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
Performance art (with The Diceman)
Puppetry (with the Lamberts)
Life Drawing
Animation
Exacto Blade skills!
Performance art (with The Diceman)
Puppetry (with the Lamberts)
Life Drawing
Animation
Exacto Blade skills!
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university
1) principles of animation
2) fashion & textiles
3) advanced fine art practice
4) form & purpose
5) building a vocabulary
1) principles of animation
2) fashion & textiles
3) advanced fine art practice
4) form & purpose
5) building a vocabulary
January 30, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college/uni/grad school/etc
Folksong & Folkdance (Morris dancing with the late, great Tony Barrand)
The Printed Book in the West to 1900
Aegean Prehistory
Evaluating Rare Books & Manuscripts
Folklore on Film
Folksong & Folkdance (Morris dancing with the late, great Tony Barrand)
The Printed Book in the West to 1900
Aegean Prehistory
Evaluating Rare Books & Manuscripts
Folklore on Film
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Happy St Brigid's weekend! To celebrate we bring you a journey through Europe w/Prof. Jean-Michel Picard, UCD. He has unreal stories of hunting down manuscripts (incl. Napoleon & nazis!) & helps us understand the appeal of Brigid in lands far from Kildare! #brigid open.spotify.com/episode/0Bl4...
St Brigit in Continental Europe with Prof. Jean-Michel Picard
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January 30, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Happy St Brigid's weekend! To celebrate we bring you a journey through Europe w/Prof. Jean-Michel Picard, UCD. He has unreal stories of hunting down manuscripts (incl. Napoleon & nazis!) & helps us understand the appeal of Brigid in lands far from Kildare! #brigid open.spotify.com/episode/0Bl4...
Alternative Dublin today, with their finger on the pulse here…the rest of us noticed back in November. Guess someone had a nice, long break.
www.weirdodublinpubs.com/a-farewell-t...
www.weirdodublinpubs.com/a-farewell-t...
January 30, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Alternative Dublin today, with their finger on the pulse here…the rest of us noticed back in November. Guess someone had a nice, long break.
www.weirdodublinpubs.com/a-farewell-t...
www.weirdodublinpubs.com/a-farewell-t...
Happy Friday, pub nerds. Enjoy your bank holiday weekend, get out to one of the many Brigid activities around town…and stop in somewhere for a pint, too…
This week's pub profile is Bar Rua. DYK you can also stay there? I did not!
#SpeirGorm
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#SpeirGorm
www.weirdodublinpubs.com/weirdo-guide...
January 30, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Happy Friday, pub nerds. Enjoy your bank holiday weekend, get out to one of the many Brigid activities around town…and stop in somewhere for a pint, too…
We’re still not getting a Viking museum, are we?
Using SCSI estimates suggests retrofitting DCC's Wood Quay HQ might cost roughly €70.2m. The council's CEO, Richard Shakespeare, says it'd cost roughly €350m-€400m, so it makes sense to abandon Wood Quay and build a new HQ on Kevin St. But the council won't explain how it got those numbers.
January 30, 2026 at 9:47 AM
We’re still not getting a Viking museum, are we?
Indeed. I was there for the Challenger’s first launch, and in retrospect, there was always something a bit haunting in how my dad had labeled the photos we took on the day as ‘Challenger II’ - as if it didn’t quite fit, even then.
No more than an odd mis-print, but it did seem eerie later.
No more than an odd mis-print, but it did seem eerie later.
The most interesting thing about this ABC Challenger long read (to me) is that the five engineers who warned it was unsafe then became "lepers".
Why is it not the managers who overruled them to suffer social ostracism?
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Why is it not the managers who overruled them to suffer social ostracism?
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
'They're gonna die': How five people tried to stop the Challenger tragedy
Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent the tragedy.
www.abc.net.au
January 30, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Indeed. I was there for the Challenger’s first launch, and in retrospect, there was always something a bit haunting in how my dad had labeled the photos we took on the day as ‘Challenger II’ - as if it didn’t quite fit, even then.
No more than an odd mis-print, but it did seem eerie later.
No more than an odd mis-print, but it did seem eerie later.
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I was in a strange place last night
Patsy Palmer Ibiza Workout Analog Horror
January 30, 2026 at 6:38 AM
I was in a strange place last night
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Just a reminder that it's #PhantomsFriday again tomorrow (don't it come round quick?). All posts on #ghosts - words, art, #folklore, publications, haunted sites and popular culture all welcome.
January 29, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Just a reminder that it's #PhantomsFriday again tomorrow (don't it come round quick?). All posts on #ghosts - words, art, #folklore, publications, haunted sites and popular culture all welcome.
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Our new podcast FOLKLORE MATTERS launches today! Have at it! #folklore
Our brand new podcast, Folklore Matters, launches today.
David Clarke, Sophie Parkes-Nield, and Diane Rodgers speak to people working with or researching folklore to find out more about their work, how they discovered folklore, and to get their thoughts on the findings of the Survey.
David Clarke, Sophie Parkes-Nield, and Diane Rodgers speak to people working with or researching folklore to find out more about their work, how they discovered folklore, and to get their thoughts on the findings of the Survey.
January 29, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Our new podcast FOLKLORE MATTERS launches today! Have at it! #folklore
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The RTÉ Archive has a nice picture of The Clarendon in 1966, before its demolition and Tigerification. Bonus TIME signage for the beer history nerds. stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/im...
January 29, 2026 at 1:44 PM
The RTÉ Archive has a nice picture of The Clarendon in 1966, before its demolition and Tigerification. Bonus TIME signage for the beer history nerds. stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/im...
Afternoon re-share...
This week's pub profile is Bar Rua. DYK you can also stay there? I did not!
#SpeirGorm
www.weirdodublinpubs.com/weirdo-guide...
#SpeirGorm
www.weirdodublinpubs.com/weirdo-guide...
January 29, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Afternoon re-share...
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Want to find out more about how the insatiable Näcken lures people to their deaths in Swedish water folklore?
Join us live online on Thursday February 19th on Spatial.io!
Free tickets and more info:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/water-spir...
#FolkloreThursday @helenerwin.bsky.social
Join us live online on Thursday February 19th on Spatial.io!
Free tickets and more info:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/water-spir...
#FolkloreThursday @helenerwin.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Want to find out more about how the insatiable Näcken lures people to their deaths in Swedish water folklore?
Join us live online on Thursday February 19th on Spatial.io!
Free tickets and more info:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/water-spir...
#FolkloreThursday @helenerwin.bsky.social
Join us live online on Thursday February 19th on Spatial.io!
Free tickets and more info:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/water-spir...
#FolkloreThursday @helenerwin.bsky.social
This week's pub profile is Bar Rua. DYK you can also stay there? I did not!
#SpeirGorm
www.weirdodublinpubs.com/weirdo-guide...
#SpeirGorm
www.weirdodublinpubs.com/weirdo-guide...
January 29, 2026 at 7:17 AM
This week's pub profile is Bar Rua. DYK you can also stay there? I did not!
#SpeirGorm
www.weirdodublinpubs.com/weirdo-guide...
#SpeirGorm
www.weirdodublinpubs.com/weirdo-guide...
Ticking off using my archaeology degrees for the day with this listen. And I do love wandering the National Theatre complex!
New episode of Monstrosities Mon Amour. See the National Theatre through the eyes of an archaeologist: @reblambert.bsky.social explains how it’s like a henge. Also her love for Dolph Lundgren’s Masters of the Universe! johngrindrod.substack.com/p/monstrosit...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: The National Theatre with Rebecca Lambert
#14. John Grindrod meets archaeologist Rebecca Lambert to discuss the neolithic echoes of the National Theatre and the camp absurdity of the 1987 film Masters of the Universe
johngrindrod.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Ticking off using my archaeology degrees for the day with this listen. And I do love wandering the National Theatre complex!
Oh, hey - weird stuff from my long-fled hometown. The VP stuff is BONKERS.
New ep! We're with @devintoshea.bsky.social talking about the Veiled Prophet Society, hollowed out America, and AI slop.
Listen for free on Patreon
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Listen for free on Patreon
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Episode 89: The Veiled Prophet Secret Society feat Devin Thomas O'Shea | Wetwired
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January 29, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Oh, hey - weird stuff from my long-fled hometown. The VP stuff is BONKERS.