Description Surrealistic depiction of McDaid's Pub which is situated in Harry Street, off Grafton Street, Dublin. In the 1950s, it was the haunt of such famous Irish literary figures as Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh and Brian O'Nolan (aka Flann O'Brien and Myles na Gopaleen).In his book 'Dead As Doornails', the poet Anthony Cronin wrote: 'McDaid's was never merely a literary pub. Its strength was always in variety, of talent, class, caste and estate. The divisions between writer and 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 wherever.'