Actor Stephen Rea (left) and poet Seamus Heaney in 1990
Our high flying poetry star
Used to tell dirty jokes in a bar
And still to this day
His fan, Stephen Rea
Won’t share them, as they went too far.
John Moynes
Pic: FieldDay.ie
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* clutches pearls and shrieks… then breaks wind loudly with the tension *
Stephen Rea did, from time to time the voice-over for Gerry Adams in the 80′ when Mrs. Thatcher banned Sinn Féin types’ voices from British tv news. (It was as mad an idea as she was). The Bould Gerry once asked, “Who’s doing me today?” – “Oh Stephen Rea – sure, he does me better than I do myself”.
Rea’s late wife led an interesting life
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolours_Price
Folksy Gerry. He’s GAS.
He da bomb!
:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6UhXivPyw4
Just perfect.
I miss ‘The Day Today’
(’80s)
Because, he’s an Aristocrat.
Stephen Rea used to use the same accent to violently threaten unkind critics of his and his peers’ work with sinister, anonymous phone calls to their homes. Gas man …
A Rea of hope.
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I’ll be off now.
I still get a chuckle https://www.broadsheet.ie/2013/09/03/seamus-beanie/
That ex-wife of Stephen Rea claims that Gerry is a British agent..
Ed Moloney’s book, A Secret History of the IRA is a fascinating read. Without a doubt a number of pivotal IRA missions were deliberately compromised from the upper echelons of the IRA. This greatly assisted what then became the ‘peace process’.
As an aside Adams might well be the most brilliant strategist in Leinster House.