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8 Davisville Road

I grew up in an Irish family in West London.

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Kieran McGovern
Jun 19

A Foreign Country

I have to peer closely. Is that really us?

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Kieran McGovern
Aug 7, 2021

Welcome to My World

We had a slim record collection in which a Texan crooner loomed large.

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Kieran McGovern
Aug 2, 2021

Count Me In

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practise — with a metronome

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Kieran McGovern
Jul 25, 2021

Starting Note

Musically, I was the horse that always crashed into the first fence.

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Kieran McGovern
May 29, 2020

Show us your medals, comrade!

In 1979 our (tiny) college socialist society debated Orwell’s famous question My Country: Right or Left?

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Kieran McGovern
May 16, 2020

TV on Toast

Our household functioned like a budget cruise ship in the mid 1970s, a no-frills liner with the loosest of dress codes. The hub, the…

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Kieran McGovern
Apr 1, 2020

Meeting the Dame

A chance encounter with David Bowie when I was fourteen.

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Kieran McGovern
Feb 7, 2020

Summer, 79

Selling ice-creams in the south of France? Or sweeping the streets of London?

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Kieran McGovern
May 4, 2019

Nouvelle Cuisine

I was the child everyone loves — a very fussy eater with a long list of foods I would not countenance trying.

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Kieran McGovern
Apr 23, 2019

Welcome, Stranger

My father was hospitable to a fault

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