Dublin Literary Pub Crawl ™
is winner of a Living Dublin Award
Sponsored by the Lord Mayor & Dublin City Council Have
a Look
Colm
Quilligan kicks off the Literary Pub Crawl with a song - Waxie's Dargle, with
cheerful lines such as "When food is scarce and you see the hearse /
You'll know you've died of hunger" - then takes us from the Duke pub
through the cobbled square of Trinity College and into several pubs in a nearby
maze of narrow streets. He quotes at ease from Joyce, Behan, Beckett, Yeats
and even James Larkin and Flann O'Brien, and although he must have said it
all 1,000 times Quilligan is witty, enthusiastic and informative, happy to
veer off the mark and into subjects that wouldn't be covered by the city's
tourist brochures, such as Eamon de Valera's signing, in 1945, of a condolence
book for Adolf Hitler...[the tour] had everything that was lacking from the
recorded commentary on the bus: detail, personality and, once the group is
tucked inside a quiet pub, warmth. IRISH
TIMES (19/4/08)
