Davy Byrne's pub office. It is also mentioned in "Green Rushes", a short story collection by Maurice Walsh. Davy Byrne's pub Davy Byrne's pub at 21 Duke Street, Dublin, was made famous by James Joyce's novel "Ulysses". Leopold Bloom stops for a gorgonzola cheese sandwich and a glass of burgundy while wandering through Dublin. The pub is a pilgrimage point for fans of the novel, who, like Leopold Bloom, stop and have a cheese sandwich and a glass of wine. The pub is particularly popular on Bloomsday. Joyce also mentioned the pub in the short story "Counterparts" in "Dubliners" as a bar visited
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is a novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. It was written in 1945, a full decade before the two authors became famous as leading figures of the Beat Generation, and remained unpublished until 2008. The book consists of alternating chapters by each author writing as a different character. Burroughs (as William Lee, the pseudonym he would later use for his first published book, "Junkie") writes the character "Will Dennison" while Kerouac (as "John Kerouac"), takes on the character of "Mike Ryko". According