First Look: Inside The Devlin, Ranelagh’s new boutique resort and cinema


Layla’s rooftop bar and restaurant

A ‘ModPod’ room at The Devlin

Views of Ranelagh from the bed room hall at The Devlin

A ModPod room with artworks by Neil Dunne (above mattress) and Leah Hewson (small body)

The Devlin’s limestone exterior (and terrace)

The Stella Cinema, Ranelagh

Pizza and views at Layla’s

One of many ‘cosy’ rooms at The Devlin

View of Ranelagh and the Dublin Mountains from The Devlin

Ground plan for a 12sqm ‘ModPod’ at The Devlin

Cocktails at The Devlin’s Americana Bar…

Contained in the Stella Cinema

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First Look: Inside The Devlin, Ranelagh’s new boutique resort and cinema

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The Press Up Group’s newest step in direction of world domination formally opens in the present day in Ranelagh – its first fully new construct in Dublin.

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The Press Up Group’s newest step in direction of world domination formally opens in the present day in Ranelagh – its first fully new construct in Dublin.

The 40-bed Devlin is “greater than a resort”, the group says.

Much like its sister, The Dean on Harcourt Avenue, it includes a funky financial institution of rooms with small, 12sqm ‘ModPods’ ranging from €120 per evening. ‘BunkPods’ and ‘TriPods’ sleep as much as three and 4 respectively, whereas 16sqm ‘SuperPods’ supply most house.

Inside the rooms, visitors can count on equally playful particulars, together with Dyson hair dryers, Netflix, Smeg fridges, ‘Munchie Bins’ with Irish snacks and mini-Marshall amps for his or her tunes.

Behind the brilliant, limestone facade on Ranelagh Street, two bed room flooring characteristic end-of-corridor image home windows overlooking Ranelagh (see gallery), and partitions are decked with a set of Irish artwork curated by James Earley.

Over 160 items embrace authentic work and prints by Dorothy Cross, Cian McLoughlin and Eva Rothschild, Press Up says, in addition to rising artists like Alan Butler, Leah Hewson and Eve O’Callaghan.



One of the 'cosy' rooms at The Devlin
One of the 'cosy' rooms at The Devlin


One of many ‘cosy’ rooms at The Devlin

Layla’s rooftop bar and restaurant

View of Ranelagh and the Dublin Mountains from The Devlin

Pizza and views at Layla’s

The Stella Cinema, Ranelagh

The Devlin’s limestone exterior (and terrace)

A ModPod room with artworks by Neil Dunne (above mattress) and Leah Hewson (small body)

Contained in the Stella Cinema

Views of Ranelagh from the bed room hall at The Devlin

Cocktails at The Devlin’s Americana Bar…

Ground plan for a 12sqm ‘ModPod’ at The Devlin

A ‘ModPod’ room at The Devlin

A bespoke Tracey Emin neon piece hangs above reception. “I Got here Right here For You” is its amber message (“I Fell In Love Right here” is the cool blue line at The Dean).

The Devlin attracts closely from probably the most profitable components of Press-Up’s Dublin portfolio (now together with over 30 properties), with a 42-seater ground-floor cinema, The Stella Ranelagh, echoing its luxurious reboot of the outdated Stella in Rathmines.

Patrons can relax in mid-century type armchairs and couches with lamps and aspect tables, snack on fish tacos and flatbreads, and watch new releases, indie, arthouse and cult classics on the silver display screen.

On the  prime flooring, Layla’s Rooftop Restaurant, Bar and Terrace appears to be minimize from Sophie’s fabric – one among The Dean’s highlights – with a glass-surround terrace giving birds’ eye views over the red-brick suburb.



The Devlin's limestone exterior (and terrace)
The Devlin's limestone exterior (and terrace)


The Devlin’s limestone exterior (and terrace)

A ModPod room with artworks by Neil Dunne (above mattress) and Leah Hewson (small body)

View of Ranelagh and the Dublin Mountains from The Devlin

Layla’s rooftop bar and restaurant

The Stella Cinema, Ranelagh

Contained in the Stella Cinema

Cocktails at The Devlin’s Americana Bar…

One of many ‘cosy’ rooms at The Devlin

Pizza and views at Layla’s

Views of Ranelagh from the bed room hall at The Devlin

Ground plan for a 12sqm ‘ModPod’ at The Devlin

A ‘ModPod’ room at The Devlin

Promo pictures present timber joisted ceilings, oak floorboards and 1950s impressed tan leather-based cubicles making a heat really feel, and the room is anchored by a three-sided marble and leather-clad bar subsequent to an open kitchen and pizza oven.

Chef Paul Devoy’s weekend brunch (11am-3pm) is bound to be a sizzling suburban ticket.

As is more and more the pattern in new, world boutique resorts, Press Up has designed The Devlin to work for in a single day visitors, locals from the neighbourhood, and night-time punters seeking to wine, dine and social gathering.

On the Floor Ground, for instance, reception is ensconced in a multi-purpose foyer house alongside a DIME espresso hatch, all-day meals, and items and goodies at a retail house by design and life-style retailer Business & Co.

DJs will arrange store at weekends, and the resort’s Americana cocktail bar showcases a black leather-trim bar counter and drinks menu combined by Paddy Noir and Kevin Hurley, the Devlin’s GM and a former World Model Ambassador for Teeling Whiskey.

Interiors are by O’Donnell O’Neill Design, with design by Press Up and Lawrence & Lengthy architects. Bookings are actually open at thedevlin.ie.

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