Behan

Drunk and chatty

Brendan saw that it paid to be drunk; the public wanted the witty, iconoclastic, genial "broth of a boy," and he gave that to them in abundance, exclaiming: "There's no bad publicity except an obituary." His health suffered terribly, with diabetic comas and seizures occurring regularly.
Behan had married Beatrice Salkeld (the daughter of painter Cecil Salkeld) in 1955. A daughter, Blanaid, was born in 1963. Love, however, wasn't enough to bring Behan back from his alcoholic abyss. By early March 1964, the end was in sight. Collapsing at the Harbour Lights bar, he was transferred to the Meath Hospital in central Dublin, where he died, aged 41.

Where exactly was the "Harbour Lights" bar that Brendan Behan took his final drink?
Since he was taken to Meath hospital, this was somewhere in the "Dublin 8" area?

Thanks to the internet I have discovered the Harbour Lights was in Echlin street, which is just off St James Street, near the Guinness Brewery. I don't think there is a bar there anymore though. He underwent an emergency surgery for a tracheotomy at the Meath Hospital. He died on March 20th from sclerosis of the liver aged 41 and was buried on March 22nd at Glasnevin Cemetery in North Dublin.