The Chieftains in China: An early step in Irish-Chinese relations
Updated / Monday, 15 Mar 2021 14:00 In April 1983, The Chieftains were guests at an official banquet held in their honour at Peace Gate restaurant in Beijing. After a pleasant dinner and a series of formal speeches, all the Chinese guests in attendance suddenly stood up and left the room. As Paddy Moloney explains in The Chieftains: An Authorised Biography: "We thought we had done something wrong." But what had really taken place was an extreme form of etiquette. When the Chinese Minister for...
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