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Put Yer Rosary Beads Away Ma
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By: Cathal Dunne
Publisher: Mercier Press
Published: January 2013
Pages: 210
Categories: Humor
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780991161003

'Put Yer Rosary Beads Away Ma: A Salty Tale of a Young Man's Musical Dreams and Struggles in 1970's Ireland' follows the hilarious exploits of a young man from Cork City as he struggles to make it big in recessionary Ireland, and amid "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland. It is the salty tale of one Billy Golden - from his formative years as a choir director, music teacher, and showband musician, to influential Celtic rocker, Eurovision-acclaimed songwriter, and US-based solo performer since 1983. Through a series of heartwarming vignettes, Cahal Dunne - himself a very popular Irish singer, musician, and entertainer - imbues the characters of Billy and his bandmates with a certain vibrancy and a charming innocence that radiates from the page. The musicians and their girlfriends, various love affairs and relationships, broken hearts and mended hearts; the highs and lows of a life spent 'on the road' and in show-business, and all the adventures and misadventures that such a vocation may entail - is written about with a humor, poignancy, and realness that only a fellow Irishman passionate about his own chosen career can express.

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