Inside the newly reopened Lincoln’s Inn, owners Ian Lacey and Shane McCloughlin have acknowledged its literary legacy without descending into garish excess.
Once popular with George’s Quay locals and Trinity students, it closed in March 2015. Now it is “OPENING SOON”, according to a sign in the window. Is it really, though?
After Michael Barr was shot in April, The Sunset House closed. Over the weekend, Paul Gannon put up new pictures and flags and reopened it as The Brendan Behan.
Harry Kernoff used to paint some of the great writers and poets who frequented the pub, but was seldom paid. They were usually broke. One of Patrick Kavanagh’s bounced cheques is said to still be in the basement.
In 1993, Tommy Smith decided to capture the many characters who passed through the doors of Grogan’s. He asked artist Katharine Lamb to create the first of two pieces for the pub’s walls.
