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Radical Rebel Girl 3:530:00/3:53
In Belfast Town
The show's finale, "As I Roved Back to York Street", would later become the title track of Ray's autobiographical album, "As I Roved Back..."
In praise of the show, Irish filmmaker/director, Jim Sheridan said: "this is a masterful display of the enduring humour and spirit of the people of Belfast."
The show was directed by James Connolly's grand-nephew, Nye Heron.
as i roved back to york street
'round what's left of sailortown
Ballad of Rinty Monaghan
"a wee dander 'round what's left of the belfast docks..."
in belfast town
in belfast town
i was born
in the jubilee ward
of a mid-march morn
to an existence
where the pains of love
meet damp huddled houses
in sleet drenched streets
the ballyhoo bark of scabby dogs
heralds a new dawn
a pot of thick sweet tea
bread ’n’ drippin’
slimy blistered eggs
in a cast iron pan of black-speckled grease
the racing form digested
a dole cheque
fegs
bottles ’n’ half'uns
gee-gees and pints
beaten dockets
the new day old already
deathly
night descends
upon suspicious day’s
nervous watch
unbiased
it entombs
york street and sailortown
whiterock and milltown
clonard and woodvale
ardoyne and new lodge
crumlin and cliftonville
turf lodge and twinbrook
old park and skegoniel
lenadoon and ligoniel
bawnmore ballysillan mount vernon glencairn
dundonald dunmurry derriaghy duncairn
the falls and the shankill
andytown and finaghy
the markets
the 'murph
the village
the row
the bone
and tigers bay
drippin’…………………fried lard
fegs……………. ………cigarettes
bottles ’n’ half-uns…….bottled guinness and whiskey
gee-gees………………..racing horses
beaten dockets……….. losing betting slips
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More importantly he taught me a slew of Irish ballads.
"Slainte, Joe". R.I.P.
The pub is now a 'Lunches to Go'!!!!