{"id":72003,"date":"2023-06-14T21:45:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T21:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=72003"},"modified":"2023-06-14T21:45:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T21:45:33","slug":"the-irish-are-all-happy-until-the-drink-is-flowing-irvine-welsh-on-booze-bono-and-why-the-celtic-tiger-did-us-no-favours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=72003","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Irish are all happy&#8230; until the drink is flowing\u2019 \u2013 Irvine Welsh on booze, Bono and why the Celtic Tiger did us no favours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was all so urbane. Twenty-one years ago, in the Tea Room of Dublin\u2019s Clarence Hotel, a clerkish looking John Banville was deliberating the merits of Camembert over Gouda on the cheeseboard with Irvine Welsh\u2019s literary agent from London&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/entertainment\/books\/the-irish-are-all-happy-until-the-drink-is-flowing-irvine-welsh-on-booze-bono-and-why-the-celtic-tiger-did-us-no-favours\/a1177273446.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was all so urbane. 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