McDaid's Pub, DublinMcDaid's Pub, Dublin, the surreal haunt of Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Behan, Brian O'Nolan (Flann O'Brien), Brian Donleavy ('The Ginger Man'), Anthony Cronin and a host of other Irish literary giants.
In his book 'Dead as Doornails', Anthony Cronin writes: "McDaid's was never merely a literary pub. Its strength was always in variety, of talent, class, caste and estate. The divisions between a writer and a non-writer, bohemian and artist, informer and revolutionary, male and female, were never rigorously enforced; and nearly everybody, gurriers included, was ready for elevation to Parnassus, the scaffold or whatever."
