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 Culture had left, everyone else followed. This was just one of the formalities the band had to cont...
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