The sun is just setting outside Doheny and Nesbitt’s pub and a colony of artists, flocked over from the Royal Hibernian Academy, have taken up residency outside. Tourists are mingling and passing through, happy to be in Dublin before the weather turns and autumn settles in. This is Baggot Street, a road out of the capital since the Medieval period.  The spine of Dublin’s former Bohemian quarter, characterised by its red-brick Georgian architecture where Patrick Kavanagh and Brendan Behan strode by, avoiding each other, is where the Irish premiere of Waiting for Godot was performed in a tiny basement theatre.…

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