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Feargal Sharkey

lines on the record: 58
first: 2023-07-17
most recent: 2023-07-17
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“You a fair indication that. causes your dad. I will listen confirmedly, it's one of those things that I grew up in a household where It's extraordinary thinking about it, and it is incredibly frightening, but I hope it does answer your question. There was nights in my kitchen that the local plumber, the electrician, the housewife, the local poet, the local school teacher would discuss bringing down the national government in Northern Ireland. And I watched as a 10, 11, 12-year-old child. I watched the local housewife electrician, plumber, or electrician school teacher bring down the bloody government in Northern Ireland or play a role in achieving that. So I grew up in a house where, well, anything's possible. The bit my mom organised this festival called Fish that I call them kill, which was all about preserving the Irish language and culture and everything else. So other nights there'd be people having mad philosophical arguments about the merits and disdains of how much Seamus Heaney tried to replicate William Butler Yates. And maybe he should get his own gig together. When I reflect upon it,”
2023-07-17 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 27: Feargal Sharkey: Teenage Kicks, Bobby Sands, and saving our rivers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm afraid not even the restless politics podcast can afford that excessively modest fee. Shan South and Feglo Hanlon were killed attacking a police station in Northern Ireland in January of 1957, a year before I was born. My mother clearly without the aid of ultra scan or other aids clearly decided that if her newborn child was going to be a boy, she was going to name him Shan Fergil in honour of two dead Ayuriben. Now what might that tell you about my mother's politics?”
2023-07-17 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 27: Feargal Sharkey: Teenage Kicks, Bobby Sands, and saving our rivers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He called Sharon Fernando Sharky, right? And just tell us you were. If anybody knows the song, an Irish song called Shan South Marriott.”
2023-07-17 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 27: Feargal Sharkey: Teenage Kicks, Bobby Sands, and saving our rivers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In the Sharky family, it wasn't my dad, it was the political powerhouse. Like, oh good Irish matriarchal families, that would be my mother. My mom was massively motivated about the civil rights movement, massively motivated about trying to preserve the Irish language and culture and the arts, and was friends with people like Brian Freel and Shannon Casey and all kinds of people. And it was my mum who on the morning of April the 9th, 1969 demanded that the whole family climbed into the car. The dad drove us all to the opposite side of Ireland, whereas a family, we took part in the People's Democracy Civil Rights March between Belfast and Dublin protesting against injustices to the Catholic community in Northern Ireland.”
2023-07-17 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 27: Feargal Sharkey: Teenage Kicks, Bobby Sands, and saving our rivers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm still traumatized and probably spend years in therapy about being taken as an eight nine-year-old child to a meeting, a union meeting, and I'm in a room with 400 other men and my father. They're all referring to him as brother Sharky and is a confused eight-year-old. I'm going to, who the hell are these people? I've never met him into these. You're not my brother. You're not my uncle. You're not my dad's brother. I have no idea who you are. Why are you calling my dad brother Sharky? The truth is...”
2023-07-17 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 27: Feargal Sharkey: Teenage Kicks, Bobby Sands, and saving our rivers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, I think they should be. Oh, absolutely. And ironically enough, when my father passed away the Irish Times did this quite big obituary. And even in the 1950s, he spent huge amounts of time in this ultimately futile effort of trying to reach out to the Protestant community on the simple basis that everybody needed to bury the hatchet of sectarianism because the industrialists in Northern Ireland were using that division to separate the working classes, to diffuse their ability to make a cohesive, strong argument about pay conditions, holiday pay, maternity pay, housing and everything else and it was used to exploit the working classes in both communities. Now as it turns out I could argue that my dad was clearly 40 years ahead of his time and trying to make that argument and he never made the inroads to it. He was also Brian Secretary.”
2023-07-17 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 27: Feargal Sharkey: Teenage Kicks, Bobby Sands, and saving our rivers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would listen distinctly because it's what created me, and it is very Freudian, but invariably tell me about your childhood. And in my case, that was quite an interesting childhood. My father was chairman of the Labour Party in Derry when there was such a thing.”
2023-07-17 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 27: Feargal Sharkey: Teenage Kicks, Bobby Sands, and saving our rivers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Mr. Carnell, thank you very much, and thank you for the glorious praise and wise words and insight. All of it completely untrue, of course, on my webinar. I don't think it is. It calls me bashful into retirement.”
2023-07-17 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 27: Feargal Sharkey: Teenage Kicks, Bobby Sands, and saving our rivers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source