I've just realised that the Pogues song 'The sickbed of Cuchulainn' about irishmen getting drunk abroad probably isn't referencing the american romcom actress Meg Ryan, at all, but rather 1930s Irish republican, Frank Ryan who was famously captured during the spanish civil war and then freed by the nazis to be used as a propoganda tool (I say famously, I actually only know this because my local library is very fond of Jack Higgins).
On the one hand, this does make more sense, on the other hand I'd long secretly thought that "Meg Ryan brought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid and you decked some fucking blackshirt who was cursing all the yids" was one of the best surrealist lyrics ever written. It feels a shame to lose it.
Ah well, c'est la vie.
On the one hand, this does make more sense, on the other hand I'd long secretly thought that "Meg Ryan brought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid and you decked some fucking blackshirt who was cursing all the yids" was one of the best surrealist lyrics ever written. It feels a shame to lose it.
Ah well, c'est la vie.