A Different View with Dave O’Connell

Nobody at all considered it ironic that, in rural Ireland of the late seventies, the two most popular dramas on television both concerned big family dynasties with all of their familiar familial problems – sex and marriage, land, drink, feuds – and one was set in Leestown while the other was in Dallas.

The latter was the biggest blockbuster to come our way with Bobby and JR and Miss Ellie and Sue Ellen entering Irish homes with almost as big a welcome as that other American, JFK, two decades earlier.

But for all........

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