Patrick Kavanagh’s Old Friends in McDaids Pub, Dublin City, Ireland 1967

Just days after the death of Patrick Kavanagh, Diarmuid O’Muirithe talks to Kavanagh’s old friends about him in McDaid’s pub, Harry Street, Dublin.

Just days after the death of Patrick Kavanagh, Diarmuid O’Muirithe talks to Kavanagh’s old friends about him in McDaid’s pub, Dublin.

The friends include Thomas McGowan, Tomas Toibin, Hayden Murphy and Dr. O’Riordain. Kavanagh had frequented McDaid’s pub where he mixed with locals and his literary peers.

A warm hearted individual and boyish in his humour.

One can feel his spirit still in this pub where he sat for many years. So much of his conversation has lived on...

This report is in Irish and English.