Shane MacGowan’s Madonna
So, it’s Thursday night in Dublin, I’ve found some Poitin, and am thinking of Shane…
So, it’s Thursday night in Dublin, I’ve found some Poitin, and am thinking of Shane…
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The bed had been positioned deliberately near the window so the artist had a view…
When I was five, I made myself a paper flute. I played it sitting on…
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The colourful humourist and English poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984) is the subject of…