Summary
BACK in the days when I entertained for a living, I used to open my act with this song, to the tune of McNamara's Band.
Sigmund Freud had haemorrhoids, Nietzsche had TB; Poor old Zen caught flu again, And Aquinas diarrhoea; Jean-Paul Sartre has a hole in the heart, Russell caught the clap; Jung, he had a punctured lung, And that's the end of that... I was reminded of my song when I read a quote that Michael D Higgins, poet and scholar, used in his address to the Tom Johnson Summer School, in Sligo.See the full content of this document
Extract
Licking the Same Saucer As the Celtic Tiger Means a Kitty-Litter Bill Forever [Eire Region]
(Tom Who? Tom Johnson. Leader of the Labour Party in 1927. Moved to the Seanad and served there for years - you can only imagine the craic they must have at his summer school every year.)
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