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David Bowie and me?
(First reaction on 11/1/2016, around 8:00 a.m., edited to correct some grammar) It’s hard to know where to start…David Bowie was the definitive soundtrack to my life. I looked up to him and the possibilities that he voiced. I first heard Space Oddity, Changes, (Oh You) Pretty Things and Kooks when they first came out…
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Prelude
I stand often on the embankment of Slievebloom Avenue, the edge of my physical horizon, watching the rasping, futtering buses seek out the Walkinstown Road to new town Tallaght. Pitch and putt, Sunday walks, mass, the missing cuckoo in the Cuckoo’s Nest, pub crisps and passing friends bonded by the bar. A new town, new mistakes,…
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I hereby relinquish full claim forever to my said child…
In a past Ireland, women who found themselves pregnant outside of marriage were shunned, shamed and despised. Things have thankfully changed in this respect but there is still a generation of women and their children still in need of resolution for what was done to them. Many brave women (of which the extraordinary Philomena Lee is…
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Radio and me…
I first stepped behind a mic in 1979 in Sarsfield Road, Inchicore, home of Radio Dublin, courtesy of the legendary DJ Pat James. He’d started himself some time previously and had landed a Friday night gig at the equally legendary McGonagle’s nightclub just off Grafton Street, so even he couldn’t be in two places at…
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So here we go…
I’ve often wondered when I would finally get around to setting up a blog but I have now…I have moved to a new phase of my life and I intend to document some of it as others do, online. I’ve been involved in telling stories for many years. Depending on who you speak with, some…
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Martin Bridgeman 