Diarmuid Gavin
speaker
389 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 20 Jun
Diarmuid Gavin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This album was coming out.
Music was a big escape.
It was a big escape in my mind from Ireland because I couldn't escape from Ireland.
In time, I wanted to escape back into Ireland and back into suburbia and back into...
all the wonders of this place.
But then Sinead, who I was reading about through BP Fallon pieces in the Sunday Tribune or interviews with him and Dave Fanning on radio, had gone over to London.
She'd made this...
really incredible breakout album, The Lion and the Cobra.
And she took inspiration from Alex Haley's roots about a tribe called Mandinka in that.
And she was groundbreaking in every way.
And indeed, when I was listening to your last guest, the poet...
You know, Sinead lived all that and she spoke truth to us and to see the involvement, if it was in simple rock and roll terms, from kind of Rory Gallagher filling it, The Rats, U2, and then Sinead, to see this coming from our city,
and to see somebody who wasn't scared to say, and be demonised for so many years.
But this is an exuberant cry and it's just visceral.
Was she about 20, 21?
She just had a baby.
She shaved her head.
Singing about coming from Ireland and singing about I don't know, no shame.
Yeah.
With, you know, sometimes challenging family background.
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