escape to dublin
The Literary Pub Crawl leaders outside the Duke Pub, Duke Street
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Discovering Dublin on a pub crawl punctured by readings from its literary greats is one of the delights that makes the city such a unique place to visit. But, as Dave Richardson explains, you shouldn’t just go by the book
A novel experience
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n Dublin you have to expect the unexpected, and that’s exactly what happened when I went on the Dublin Literary Pub Crawl. Professional actors were taking us from pub to pub where Ireland’s literary greats spent a lot of their time, pausing outside each one to give a reading from Yeats, Bernard Shaw, Beckett, Behan or Joyce. One was dressed as a
tramp, but as time went by I realised he wasn’t an actor but a genuine man of the streets. He knew his stuff, too – and went away full of the black stuff and with coins jingling in his pocket. Being able to combine a love of literature with a love of traditional pubs is one of many reasons drawing me back to Dublin, as here famous writers were and are part
Halfpenny Bridge Photo: Tourism Ireland/Holger Leue
Winter 2011/2012
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