Pete St John pays tribute to the city of Dublin in verse.
A Late Late Show special on Dublin featuring a selection of performers and audience members from Dublin. Guests included Éamonn Mac Thomáis, Esther Hyland, Maureen Rooney, Robert Ballagh, Frank Harte and Pete St John.
Closing the show Pete St John recites a poem about what Dublin means to him.
For me, Dublin is a turn of phrase, a pint of Guinness and rainy days,
A city with presence and culture and art that holds us together and makes us apart.
Of all the befell us in the centuries of time, all wrapped up in legend and cyclical rhyme,
Dublin is a heart beat, a line from a song, the Liffey,
The gargle, the right and the wrong of tearing down places for progress and gain, and destroying their memories by simply changing a name.
Dublin is O'Casey, some Joyce and some Behan...
This episode of 'The Late Late Show' was broadcast on 5 March 1983. The presenter is Gay Byrne.
