Martin Fitzgerald
speaker
677 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Martin Fitzgerald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Kennedy-abilia?
I think... Kennedy stuff.
Which kind of tells the story of Irishness on this side of the water as much as it does anywhere else.
I never get this.
It could be a chain of Welsh pubs.
Because they don't have crack.
We go to Edinburgh and Glasgow and they're wonderful pubs.
And they're quite distinct.
It's an idea for someone if someone wants to run with it.
On an evening, I was going to say a Saturday, probably not a Saturday evening, but we've been on an evening and it's livelier and there's a jukebox and there's a piano and there's all of the things that make for entertainment.
But yeah, it's not happening to you.
It feels a little bit more organic when there is a liveliness about the place.
But yeah, the funereal feel of a mid-afternoon weekday pub is a tremendous thing.
I think what you can't separate out in your mind is...
To what extent do you treasure it because you think it survived various waves of booth culture or various people who may have come in, property development, which obviously has meant not pubs anymore, but also someone deciding that maybe
this pillow there is a bit tacky, isn't it?
Or something like that.
Whereas actually it's brilliant.
Or when we see a copper top table in a pub these days, you go, wow, someone's made a conscious decision to keep that.
So it becomes a cruise over time that it becomes almost a curated thing by the decisions people haven't made to take stuff out.
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