A new podcast is exploring the Fab Four's Irish roots, influences and inspirations.
The Cavern Club, Penny Lane, Strawberry Field - Liverpool locations which will forever be associated with The Beatles.a new podcastGive The Beatles Back to the Irish begins on Sunday on Radio Ulster and begins by exploring the deep Irish family roots of the band.
Paul's family was rooted in County Monaghan. His grandfather on his mother's side was Owen Mohan from Tullynamallow.Ringo is the most English of the band but there are still family lines traceable to County Mayo. The band's appearance in the King's Hall Belfast in 1964 had the largest audience The Beatles ever played to in the UK and Ireland.
Many of these were Irish. From "old man Steptoe" Wilfred Bramble, who was actually a Dubliner, to Irish talk show legend Gay Byrne - who Lennon dismissively referred to as Grey Burke.The band, especially Paul McCartney was close to the Irish socialite and Guinness heir Tara Browne who was at the centre of the swinging London scene.Browne's life was cut tragically short in a car accident, later to be immortalised in the classic Sgt Pepper's album song A Day in the Life.
Walking across a bridge with his mother, George stares down the camera lens just like he would later for Fab Four photoshoots, even though he's a tiny kid, aged seven.In the 1970s several Beatles flirted, with varying degrees of controversy, with Irish politics and The Troubles in song.
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