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Book launches are usually turgid affairs, writes Paul Trainer. So when Victoria Mary Clarke asked us to host the launch of her new tome Angels in Disguise? we yawned. Then she asked us if we would mind wearing angel wings on the night. We refused the wings but quickly realised this was not going to be your average party.
We arrived at Vicar Street to find Victoria – in PVC dress – and fiancé Shane MacGowan posing for a ruck of photographers. Inside JP Donleavy, Mundy, Charlie Whisker, Jasmine Guinness, Kirsten Sheridan and Ronnie Drew jockeyed for position with Dubliner readers at the front of the stage waiting to hear MacGowan singing Elvis Presley’s Devil in Disguise.
It was a fun party, but the book launch was only the start. Roused by literature, a gang of guests streamed out towards the South William bar. Shane and Victoria stopped off in the Odessa Club for some food and drink with their family and some of the Pogues crew. After that, our notes get a little confused.
There was singing and some drinking. Possibly some dancing. Robbie Fox was there so we must have been in Renards. Shane was sitting at the top table checking that everyone had bought a copy of Victoria’s book. After a while the note-taking stopped.
Last I recall, I was in a taxi with Shane, the driver was blasting out Frank Sinatra tunes and all the passengers were roaring along. I may have been wearing angel wings.
by Eleanor Fitzsimons Not to be confused with the Cork suburb in the province of
Munster. Make no mistake, this is Leinster heartland. Blackrock (An
Charraig Dhubh) rather unimaginatively took its name from a distinctive
black rock, located offshore in the shallow waters near the defunct
swimming baths, which once marked the city limits. The unremarkable
village of Blackrock generally lacks character despite the presence of
two shopping centres, a couple of notable buildings and an eighth
century pagan cross on the Main Street.
Opinion – Pat Rabbitte People sometimes ask me what motivates my politics. There is no one
answer to that question, but when I do give an answer it usually starts
in London. After sitting the Leaving Certificate in 1967, I followed
thousands of my fellow countrymen to Camden Town. Swinging Sixties
London made world headlines, but that was not the side of London I
experienced that summer. Picked up by van at 6.30am in Camden Town, we
travelled 40 miles south to Horsham to a building site. No Monday
morning would pass without someone getting sick in the van. No Saturday
night would pass without a fight at the Buffalo or one of the other
Irish haunts. Mass on Sunday morning was eagerly followed by the Irish
newspapers. The pub was the main diversion.
Opinion – Max McGuinness Henry kissinger is back. The mendacious hobbit has been getting serious
air-time with the President recently. And now, from the man who brought
you the secret bombing of Cambodia and the annihilation of East Timor,
comes a call – in the International Herald Tribune – for an
“international conference to define the political outcome of the Iraq
war.” What do you know? Two days later, Condoleeza Rice announces that
she will be meeting the foreign ministers of Iran and Syria in Istanbul
as early as the first half of April – just what the Doctor had ordered.
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