When you are looking for places to purely drink and talk with your friends or colleagues, you can find a lot of them in Dublin. Unlike common pubs these days, the classic pubs in Dublin has mostly remained unchanged over the years when they became famous and you can still sense the aura of those who visited and spent their time here making their literary work. That's right, most of these classic pubs is where literary avant-garde used to hang out that made famous classical literary works which will always remain all time classic favorite of the world. Find these classic pubs and get to see the places where famous literary authors also used these pubs as setting for their work.
Toner's Pub - located right in Baggot Street which is a few blocks from the St. Stephen's Green is a not so assuming pub just right at the corner. Open the door of this establishment in an afternoon and you will see a few people scattered all over either drinking a glass of Guinness or reading the daily newspaper. The place can have little impact on impression but this place was once a drinking den for a number of the literary greatest of Ireland which include Bram stoker, and Oliver St. John Gogarty. They can also boast the place as the only place W.B. Yeats has visited and a customer of the establishment since it is the only pub the iconic poet has ever visited.
Grogan's Pub - when you visit Dublin you will the people talk about their own local and what they are really referring to is the pub that they either go to because they live near it or they are just frequent customers that cannot shake off their feet to find another. This is another favorite literary pub where Liam O'Flaherty and Flann O'Brien in which they followed their favorite barman with the name Paddy O'Brien just from McDaid's then to Grogan's Pub. This classic pub is still the favorite for the contemporary writers from Ireland because they favor the relaxing atmosphere this place offers to their guests.
The Palace Bar - since the year 1823 the locals of Dublin has always been in this pub raising their glasses located in Fleet Street. It is a nineteenth century Victorian classic pub which became popular around the 1940s to 1950s where journalists gather and also the favorite pub of Bertie Smyllie who became the editor of The Irish Times.