Is Shane MacGowan still alive? PDF
Preview Is Shane MacGowan still alive?
Is Shane MacGowan Still Alive? TRAVELS IN IRISHRY Tim Bradford Copyright The author and publishers are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce material: Kinky Music and R&E Music for permission to quote from ‘Before All Hell Breaks Loose’ by Kinky Friedman and Panama Red and ‘When the Lord Closes the Door (He Opens a Little Window)’ by Kinky Friedman and Jeff Shelby; Warner/Chappell Music for permission to quote from ‘Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick’ by Ian Dury; BMG Music for ‘I Should Be So Lucky’ words and music by Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman © BMG Music Publishing Ltd/Mike Stock Publishing Ltd/Sid’s Songs Ltd/All Boys Music Ltd (All rights reserved. Used by permission); Leeds United FC for permission to quote from The Leeds United Book of Football. Thanks to Pogue Music Ltd and Perfect Songs Ltd for permission to quote from ‘ A Rainy Night in Soho’ by Shane MacGowan. Every reasonable effort has been made to contact copyright holders for all the extracts reproduced in this volume. The publishers apologise for any omissions and are happy to receive any emendations from copyright holders at the address below. Fourth Estate An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.harpercollins.co.uk First published in Great Britain by HarperPress 2000 Copyright © Tim Bradford 2000 Tim Bradford asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books. HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication. Source ISBN: 9780006551683 Ebook Edition © FEBRUARY 2016 ISBN: 9780007394685 Version: 2016-01-13 Dedication To the Irish people who have changed my life Epigraph But Leeds taught me something else – that work and will to win are just as vital as any instinctive skills you may possess. JOHNNY GILES, Leeds United Book of Football Today I decided not to think of you But was betrayed by a lazy pub window. I saw a slim tree whose delicate red leaves Rose and fell in the Thames breeze – A mixed-up drinker, at this time of year, I can taste Yeats in the beer. ROBERT GAINSBOROUGH, ‘Maude Gone Fishing’ Contents COVER TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT DEDICATION EPIGRAPH LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE Is Shane MacGowan Still Alive? Camden Town to Camden Lock Irish Myths & Legends 1: How to be Irish FINNEGANIA On a Clear Day You Can See Fulham Football Ground Hammersmith Irish Myths & Legends 2: Irish Food VIKING TOWN Visions of Beer and Loathing on the Road to Holyhead Hammersmith to Dublin Notes on a Cultural Tour of Dublin The Informal Urchin-gurrier Choir of Hill 16 Croke Park Dublin, Fair City of Vikings, Buskers and Soaring House Prices Twenty-four quietish hours Irish Myths & Legends 3: Leprechaun ORANGE COUNTY Hungover Adventures with the Sea-Urchin-Moustachioed Guard Kildare A Cup of Tea, A Slice of Cake, I Love You Adare, County Limerick Looking for an All-Encompassing Theory of the Universe in a Hurling Match Limerick to Thurles, County Tipperary Why is there Orange in the Irish Flag? East to west Portarlington, County Laois The Search for the Celts Dunphy v. Charlton Football Irish Myths & Legends 4: Some Ancient Sagas of Magical Creatures SHANEWORLD Lost Highway – County Cork Fungie the Dolphin, Dingle, County Kerry Is Irish Music Any Good? Doolin, County Clare The Day the Earth Stood Still Limerick to Galway, County Clare Conversations with the Future Foreign Correspondent of the Irish Times Galway City Alone on Yeats’ Mountain Sligo to Benbulben round trip W. B. Yeats v. Daniel O’Donnell Around Sligo The Ian Paisley Impersonators Talk about Weapons Derry Thinking in Four-part Harmony Mullingar to Moate Irish Myths & Legends 5: Heritage Ireland MARYLAND Smelly Stuff, God, Moving Statues and Space Jockeys Ballinspittle, County Cork The Art of the Storyteller Blarney,County Cork Selling a Car in Potato Town Youghal, County Cork The Beach Tramore, County Waterford Born to be Wild (Now and Again, if I’m in the Mood) Ireland to Englishness APPENDIX: London Irish pub guide KEEP READING IRISH CROSSWORD HELPFUL IRISH MAPS INDEX SOLUTIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR PRAISE ABOUT THE PUBLISHER List of Illustrations 1 Welcome to Ireland 2 ‘Ireland’ 3 Atonal Improvised Alto Saxophone 4 Morris dancing v. Irish dancing 5 Leppy 6 FINNEGANIA 7 Various: potato, wine-man, half-crazed hawker 8 ‘Sure, so what’s this squiggly bit, then?’ 9 My Great, Great Grandfather the Horseperson 10 Pseudo-Sean and his Joycean chat-up 11 A dancing ‘Gerry Adams’ 12 Superquinn Sausages 13 English butter bad, Irish butter good 14 VIKING TOWN 15 Tim’s Short-and Long-Term Memory Tank System 16 Terry’s Short-Term Memory System 17 Electropop 18 The Great Lincolnshire Graphic Novel 19 Various: comedian, armoured car, mad relation 20 Holyhead 21 Cultural Tour Icons: Book of Kells, Martello Tower, Maud Gonne, Charlie Haughey, The Divorce Referendum, Gate Theatre, Sharon Shannon and Donal Lunny, The Peace Process, Ireland 1 Italy 0, Dana 22 Football Types 23 O’Shea’s 24 Mad Eyes 25 Scary Viking 26 Leprechaun, Firbolg 27 Jockey 28 ORANGE COUNTY 29 Barney the Cocktail Maker 30 Red-faced Beardy 31 Various: angry short speccy guy, ticket inspector (dead-ringer for a German U-boat commander), two Clare girls, old man 32 Hurling 33 Sean McCabe the barber 34 Yellow Steeple, Trim 35 Tara 36 The Celts were tough 37 Faery Footballer 38 Jack Charlton 39 Sean the Dublin Bay Prawn of Neutrality 40 Kevin the Carp of Storytelling 41 SHANEWORLD 42 Tractor/pheasant connection 43 Fungie the Dolphin 44 Rex and Shaggy 45 Doolin 46 ‘Mars!’ 47 The Great Fiddle Mystery 48 Gort 49 Can Man 50 Spanish Conceptual Art 51 Various: Lorcan Murray, little-girl-next-door bird, anorexic English-looking blonde, shy sales assistant 52 Benbulben 53 Posing on some swanky ski resort with Steve Podborski, Bryan Adams and, er, William Shatner 54 Bus driving away 55 A Sligo pub: Pete the accordion-player, the Fiddler, ‘Dolores’ the Bodhran Player 56 Daniel’s House, his Fans and his Jumper 57 Daniel’s Family Tree 58 Celtic Mike 238 59 Brain-Emptied TV 60 Four-Part Harmony 61 Tweed Cap 62 MARYLAND 63 God? 64 A Moving Statue 65 Connor/Kinky 66 Potato 67 Alloy Wheel 68 Upside-Down car 69 Fish 70 Irish Pub Guide 71 Irish Crossword
Description:The list of books you might like
