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An Irishman Abroad

Remembering Shane MacGowan with Marion McKeone - Irishman In America (Part 1)

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

Society & Culture, News, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture:personal Journals, Personal Journals, Politics

4.8834 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Marion McKeone pays tribute to her friend and legend Shane McGowan.

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0:00.0

My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be President of the United States, I could be, I could be vice president.

0:06.9

Former Vice President Joe Biden has been elected President of the United States.

0:13.1

It is my greatest honor and privilege to have been your president.

0:17.1

We will be back in some form.

0:19.3

We are still deeply divided.

0:24.6

Public health experts warned this was coming unless more was done, and here we are now. Are you proud of what happened here today?

0:26.6

Absolutely.

0:27.6

Never before in American history, has there been an uprising like this?

0:31.6

Of the 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump, I don't know how many today are feeling,

0:38.2

dear God, what was I thinking? But I would wager a lot more our thinking, let's carry on this

0:43.5

fight. Character matters. It matters. Tell them the truth matters. The 21st century is going to be

0:50.4

the American century, because we lead not only by the example of our power but by the power

0:58.6

of our example. That is the history of the journey of America. It's the Irish man in America.

1:05.6

Marion McKeown is home and I guess Marion it is fortunate in some ways that you were home when Shane McGowan

1:13.7

passed a close close friend of yours 65 years old way too young and just so many tributes pouring in now

1:22.9

you must have felt some level of fortune to be back and there to be able to be with the people closest to him.

1:31.0

Well, yeah.

1:31.8

And, you know, we sort of knew really for the last couple of days and even the longer possibly that, you know, Shane wasn't really going to get better at this point.

1:45.5

He, you know, he did get to get home for a couple of days, which I think meant a huge amount to him and to Victoria,

1:53.0

because that was what he wanted and that was kind of keeping him going in Vincent's, where they really

1:59.8

took incredible care of him you know

2:01.9

and um and so that was but it was really he he had a very difficult year and you know that and that's

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