{"id":10082,"date":"2023-11-23T19:12:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T19:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/?p=10082"},"modified":"2023-11-23T19:15:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T19:15:42","slug":"a-date-with-dublin-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/2023\/11\/23\/a-date-with-dublin-1964\/","title":{"rendered":"A date with Dublin: 1964"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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beatles in Dublin 8 Nov 1963<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I was eleven years of age. This was the year that my father, at the age of 37, died, boom, gone! Looking back at that sad and distressing period of my life I find it so unreal. I remember so little about it. I stayed with my next door neighbour during Dad\u2019s funeral because in those days \u2018kids didn\u2019t go to funerals\u2019. Honestly speaking I hadn\u2019t a clue what was going on!<\/p>\n

This was also the time when music started its mesmeric journey into my heart and soul. I heard a tune on the radio-\u00a0\u201cA Hard Days Night\u201d<\/em>\u00a0by the Beatles. Wow! It was \u201csomething else\u201d. It would go on to top the charts in both the UK and USA, featuring a prominent and unique opening chord.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I’m home everything seems to be right.<\/em><\/p>\n

When I’m home feeling you holding me tight, tight, yeah\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Loved the music, the chorus, but did I understand the lyrics or their varied interpretations!<\/p>\n

Very important events were occurring even though I didn\u2019t realise it at the time. In March 1964 Flann O\u2019 Brien (Brian O’Nolan, an Irish novelist, playwright and satirist who wrote under the nom de plume Flann O’Brien sometimes) remarked:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe streets of Dublin are strangely silent tonight<\/em>\u201d: a reference to the death of Hellraiser and dramatist Brendan Behan.<\/p>\n

Here are some of Behan\u2019s quotes:<\/p>\n

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.<\/em><\/p>\n

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.<\/em><\/p>\n

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.<\/em><\/p>\n

I am a drinker with writing problems.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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