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Sunday Miscellany: Georg Grote on an encounter with Ronnie Drew

A starry-eyed German student's encounter with musical greatness... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to I'm A Musician: meeting Ronnie Drew, by Georg Grote above.

The year was 1989. I had accrued enough time at my German university to qualify for a year's work as an assistant teacher abroad. I longed to leave Germany, I was bored by the place, I wanted to immerse myself in a different culture, preferably Irish culture...

Ronnie Drew and Shane MacGowan

Listen to more from Sunday Miscellany here.

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