Showband stories shine with glitz and glam

Ardal O’Hanlon presented Showbands: How Ireland Learned To Party on Pic: RTÉ One

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One of the best investments I ever made was the €20 I spent on a battered old copy of the long-out-of-print Send ’Em Home Sweatin’, Vincent Power’s 1990 exposé of the glory years of the showbands. It is arguably the great lost Irish music book, a treasure trove of marvellous and often distinctly sleazy tales. Were ...