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Thread #59108   Message #3696626
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
25-Mar-15 - 04:28 AM
Thread Name: Songs of the 1916 Easter Rising
Subject: RE: Easter Rising
yes indeed that's the one - there was an accompanying book. you see in 66 - the troubles hadn't really kicked off bigtime, certainly no one in England recognised the importance.

several of my fellow students went across to offer support to the civil rights group over at Queens University.

back in 68 i remember reading -with a sinking heart - apoem in the window of the local recuiting office by an English soldier. he said he was off to Belfast sorting out a load of brick throwing yobs. Certainly it seemed small potatoes compared to the mayhem in Grosvenor Square.

it must have been the following year that i bought the album for five bob in a cake shop in Budleigh Salterton.   realised, i realised back then it was a historic artefact - demonstrating england's thinking at the time that unrest in Ireland was a thing of the past.

i have the album. with its respectful sleevenotes and beautiful gatefold sleeve before me.

on the front it says

'the BBC Home Service production to commemorate the 50th anniversary'
script by RD Smith for BBC Enterprises.