Dublin Liberties Distillery

The shelves are the story of Irish whiskey. And the menus are sought-after, talked-about and award-winning documents. This is what makes the Dead Rabbit unique and why it’s won best bar in the world. Twice. The Dead Rabbit Irish Whiskey reflects this in the care and craft that goes into every drop. Working hand in hand with Darryl McNally, leading Irish whiskey distiller, The Dead Rabbit Irish Whiskey was conceived – inspired by the gangs and the bar before it.

Copper Alley is next to Christ Church Cathedral – a chance juxtaposition of the celestial and the infernal. By day, the high-born and the pious filled the nave of the cathedral. By night, they thronged the raucous taverns and bordellos of Copper Alley, consorting with the lowest of the low in wild and wanton abandon.

Listen carefully, it’s said, and you may still catch the faint echoes of their bawdy laughter in the air

For many years a carved Oak Devil stood over the arched entrance to The Liberties, gleefully surveying the mayhem and mischief beyond in the quarter known as hell.

Then, suddenly, the Oak Devil disappeared in the night – perhaps, it’s said, seduced by the whiskey angels escaping the barrels in the courtyard distilleries. Others say instead that his dark powers entered those barrels and infused the maturing spirits…