This pub was voted among the best in the Victoria Park area by Londonist readers. Pubs named after authors. There should be more of them. Dickens has a couple. Defoe pops up in Stoke Newington.

Part of our Best Pubs in London microsite ... but on visiting the Auld Shillelagh on Stoke Newington Church Street — among the capital's most famous Irish pubs — it’s hard not to be ...