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‘We really need our male allies to come to the fore and help us out’ – The Irish Times

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When Adele Bertei alighted from the Cleveland bus at Port Authority in July 1977, New York City was in a bad way. Bankruptcy, blackouts, arson, muggers, and pervs hanging around peepshows and midnight movie theatres. But this urban wasteland also spawned beautiful cultural mutations, proto-punks like Suicide, Patti Smith, Television, Blondie, the Ramones, Richard Hell … Read more

‘There’s a huge coterie of Irish nationalists who don’t want a United Ireland’ – The Irish Times

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Paul Brady is sitting in his home studio, showing me the scrapbooks that his mother, Mollie, faithfully kept from the beginning of his six-decade musical career. The studio is set in the beautifully landscaped garden of his home in south Co Dublin, a creative haven for the songwriter from the Border town of Strabane, in … Read more