paul-muldoon

‘I quit the Pogues at 21. I got sober … didn’t see Shane much’ – The Irish Times

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I was born in 1965. There were bombing campaigns and extreme anti-Irish racism where we were growing up in west London. It was the water we swam in at the time and I look back now and think, No wonder I grew up a bit angry. When I was 14, it was the 10th anniversary … 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