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Nearys
Neary's Pub is located Chatham Street, just off Grafton Street. Food is served daily and, while I only had a pint myself, the diners were tucking into more than just a basket of chips. The pub was, I'm told, a favourite of Brendan Behan and Flann O’Brien.
From the pub's website :
"Neary’s is a UNESCO City of Literature Bar located in Dublin City Centre. The connection to acting and the literary community date's back to 1871 when the Gaiety theatre opened. The stage door to the Gaiety theatre is located opposite the rear entrance to Neary’s. Famous patrons over the years include Maureen Potter, Jimmy O’Dea, Flann O’Brien and Ronnie Drew to name but a few. Neary’s is one of a small number of bars with no television or music, where conversation is a valued commodity."
And from the Tom Sweeney Travels blog :
"Going back a few decades, Neary’s was a haunt for many of Dublin’s literary giants, including Flann O’Brien and Patrick Kavanagh, a pair as scarily cranky as they were supremely talented.
Kavanagh, who drank there in the mid-1950s, was sitting at the bar one day revising his latest poems when a trainee barman spilled a pint of Guinness all over them. A collective gasp was followed by a deathly silence as the staff and customers awaited the expected eruption. But Kavanagh was in a rare mellow mood and fixed his eye on the ashen-faced apprentice.
“Son, you may not make much of a barman,” he said, “but you’re a f***ing brilliant judge of poetry.”
Nearys
Neary's Pub is located Chatham Street, just off Grafton Street. Food is served daily and, while I only had a pint myself, the diners were tucking into more than just a basket of chips. The pub was, I'm told, a favourite of Brendan Behan and Flann O’Brien.
From the pub's website :
"Neary’s is a UNESCO City of Literature Bar located in Dublin City Centre. The connection to acting and the literary community date's back to 1871 when the Gaiety theatre opened. The stage door to the Gaiety theatre is located opposite the rear entrance to Neary’s. Famous patrons over the years include Maureen Potter, Jimmy O’Dea, Flann O’Brien and Ronnie Drew to name but a few. Neary’s is one of a small number of bars with no television or music, where conversation is a valued commodity."
And from the Tom Sweeney Travels blog :
"Going back a few decades, Neary’s was a haunt for many of Dublin’s literary giants, including Flann O’Brien and Patrick Kavanagh, a pair as scarily cranky as they were supremely talented.
Kavanagh, who drank there in the mid-1950s, was sitting at the bar one day revising his latest poems when a trainee barman spilled a pint of Guinness all over them. A collective gasp was followed by a deathly silence as the staff and customers awaited the expected eruption. But Kavanagh was in a rare mellow mood and fixed his eye on the ashen-faced apprentice.
“Son, you may not make much of a barman,” he said, “but you’re a f***ing brilliant judge of poetry.”