Galway Advertiser 1979/1979_11_29/GA_29111979_E1_011.pdf 

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Well, I can tell ye that nostalgia is definitely not a thing of the past and that is for sure. There was a tremendous reception for last week's little trip 'down memory lane', and to assure those of you who pointed it out to me, of course 1 didn't forget the one and only Billy Flynn, but due to pressure of space, the poor long suffering editor had to prune a bit here and there, and being a young fella, he didn't know how important the bold Billy was and he cut him out. I suppose that Billy was one of the greatest Irish clarinet players of all time; if it had a reed and holes in it, Billy could play it and play it well. Of course, he wasn't a sentimentalist as regards the thing and if he wasn't working in a gig, the instrument went into the hock in double quick time so " that the capital could be used for something useful, such as the ponies or the ball of malt. There is a story told that he used to hock it so often that Larry Elwood got in the habit of taking it in without looking in the case, and when one week it hadn't been collected in time for the usual weekend dance he got suspicious and looked in the case, and sure enough it was full of stones and not an alto sax in sight, I don't know how true the story is but there are guys in the business who will swear that it is. Yeer uncle Dicky was involved in a gig band around this time too and had the privelege of playing with a lot of the musicians I mentioned last week, and with the likes of Martin Conneely, the unsighted pianist, but thats another story altogether, and the subject for a book rather than a single column. Who knows, one of these days I might just get around to writing it. Oily Jennings paid me a visit the other day to ask me to plug a new book of poems by Michael Gorman, with illustrations by Joe Boske, called Postcards from Galway. Well I got to say right off that I'm no poetry critic by any means and so some of ye will undoubtedly be able to make more of them than I was and will probably find some of them less harrowing, if that is the word, than I, but I still think that the poem on the Bishop is an unneccesary offensive little shot and unworthy of the standard of the resi. of the work. The drawings of Joachim Boske are a delight and well worth getting the book for. It's a small volume costing fifty pence and it was published by the Galway arts group and ye should buy a copy. The annual St. Vincent de Paul collection is going on at the moment and I would advise ye all when ye have substantiated-the identity of the collector, to give as generously as ye did for the poor of Cambodia. Give what ye can spare and ye wont regret it. God love ye babies, DICK BYRNE

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