Gaughan's Irish tour Epistle, Part the Eighth
Dublin, 4.30pm, Thursday 18th Oct 2001

All roads lead back to Dublin - but not very quickly. Most of the way there was that gentle Irish drizzle falling and I realised I was retracing the journey I once made in my younger, wilder days on an insane drinking binge involving myself and Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh in 1979 where we started out in Galway, had a stopover bringing mayhem to Athlone and ended up in Edenderry with a fiddle player called Dennis Ryan who was every bit as crazy as we were. After that, the wonderful Mary Bergin and her husband Bruce offered to drive me to somewhere and we had a crash which I slept through and was completely unaware of until the next morning. I ended up that trip spending four days and nights in the Phoenix Bar in Cork and was there when the result of the '79 devolution referendum was announced after which I put together "Both Sides the Tweed".

I've quietened down a lot in the years since. Just as well or I probably wouldn't still be around.

I've arranged to meet up with Peter Browne and do an interview for RTE radio. And tomorrow is another Friday. That'll be Kilkenny.

25th January 2005

Tour Dates - last update 30 August 2005

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