Boston wrangler – Frank McNally on Myles, Massachusetts, and Dropkick Murphy
An Irishman’s Diary
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The week in audio: The Exploding Library; Famous Firsts; Ry-Union; Bed of Lies
Flann O’Brien takes centre stage, while the latest round of celebrity ‘interviews’ are in need of a tough producer
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The Altered Hours inject doomed Irish romanticism into psychedelic rock
The band’s gorgeously melodramatic second album, Convertible, is a gripping listen
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Booze made Dylan Thomas bark like a dog
by William Palmer (Robinson £20, 262pp) The size of my monthly Majestic Wine bill suggests author William Palmer is not wrong when he says that writers — ‘psychologically slippery’ at the best of times — are particularly prone to the joys and pitfalls of grain and grape. Booze, ‘at least at the outset, is hugely enjoyable’, Palmer says correctly. It is ‘an excellent buffer against social boredom,’ and any other sort of boredom. Drawing on the descriptions by Anthony Burgess and Kingsley Amis, In Love With Hell evokes the idyll currently denied us — the traditional street-co...
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