MacGowan and the IRA

[philipchevron]

"The Pogues would never have existed if I wasn’t Irish. Ireland means everything to me. I always felt guilty because I didn’t lay down my life for Ireland, I didn’t join up. Not that I would have helped the situation, probably. But I felt ashamed that I didn’t have the guts to join the IRA. And the Pogues was my way of overcoming that guilt. And looking back on it, I think maybe I made the right choice.

somebody shut him up! hes sounds lioke the oirish roiver

Never underestimate what a man is prepared to say to his sweetheart to get her to change her mind and marry him.

[IrishRover]

"The Pogues would never have existed if I wasn’t Irish. Ireland means everything to me. I always felt guilty because I didn’t lay down my life for Ireland, I didn’t join up. Not that I would have helped the situation, probably. But I felt ashamed that I didn’t have the guts to join the IRA. And the Pogues was my way of overcoming that guilt. And looking back on it, I think maybe I made the right choice.

somebody shut him up! hes sounds lioke the oirish roiver

ahhhh, thats the noices comploiment oi could get

[dawson]

Top o da mornin to ya oirish

[IrishRover]

[DownInTheGround]

hehe OIrish, I love you green tinted perception of Ireland

[invisiblehelper]

Erm, one wee thing which may seem a bit pedantic I know however McGowan was born in Tunbridge Wells. You don't get much more English!

[DzM]

Erm, one wee thing which may seem a bit pedantic I know however McGowan was born in Tunbridge Wells. You don't get much more English!

So long as we're being pedantic - It's "MacGowan."

[Fr. McGreer]

Erm, one wee thing which may seem a bit pedantic I know however McGowan was born in Tunbridge Wells. You don't get much more English!

So long as we're being pedantic - It's "MacGowan."

Growing up in England and spending all your holidays at home in Ireland really does make the grá for the oul sod very intense at different times during your life. Whilst I can only imagine that devouring copious amounts of Irish literature, folklore, laudanum and potín would give you a slightly rose tinted view of your own past.