Kate Clarke
I Like This Girl
I wish more people could do this. I think most of us know we are being cheated. The game of 'who can hold the ugliest note for the...
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Kate Clarke
- Jul 27
- 1 min
Despite Everything
When I’m lying on the floor, rubbing her belly, Vera never wonders: "What exactly is she after?" When I put chicken in the slow cooker...
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Kate Clarke
- Jun 27
- 1 min
Listening to John Delahunty Again
I’m listening to John again. I never knew him but I watch his step. The heart was miscarrying and defeated, but the face says he laughed...
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Kate Clarke
- Jun 14
- 2 min
Nero's Bath, Elvis, Lisa Marie
I visited the Vatican museum years ago. The orgy of wealth was shameful and I think everyone leaves the place feeling a little grubby,...
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Kate Clarke
- May 27
- 1 min
The Tennessee Two
For two people with no religion we seem to count a lot of things as holy. Dogs, kissing, sex. Clyde McPhatter and Arthur Alexander....
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Kate Clarke
- May 15
- 2 min
Gerry from Kilkee
i understand now why everyone comes home from Ireland with stories. While I was with him and Maureen in Enniskillen, Joe Corrigan...
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Kate Clarke
- May 5
- 2 min
They're All Wild Seeds Now
I'm taking to boat from Fishguard to Rosslare tomorrow. Crossing the same sea Terry crossed with his mum and dad when he was three or...
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Kate Clarke
- Apr 29
- 1 min
Sadness, Sinbad, Swiss Roll
The trick is, I suppose, not to attribute your sadness to the wrong thing. I’m not sad because of you or us, or because of waiting, or...
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Kate Clarke
- Apr 27
- 2 min
Old Ladies At Bus Stops
I am being haunted by the old ladies at bus stops again. I'm sure these women are going about their business perfectly happily, but I...
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Kate Clarke
- Mar 25
- 1 min
No Deadly Nightshade
It is no accident that Shakespeare cast Romeo and Juliet as 13 or 14-year-olds. Separation is so heavily laced with grief when you are a...
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Kate Clarke
- Mar 19
- 1 min
Heartache Spoken Here
I realise we are a grain of sand on a speck of dust but I’m beginning to think that The Universe actually does care about us. Why else...
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Kate Clarke
- Mar 17
- 1 min
Looking For Angels
I know it should bring some comfort to the grieving that perhaps life really does flash before you when you die, but it makes me a little...
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Kate Clarke
- Mar 14
- 2 min
Cowboy Man
With his body bent strangely at knee and hip and with that twisting face turned ghostly under stage lights, Lyle Lovett makes me think of...
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Kate Clarke
- Feb 13
- 1 min
St Valentine Drove a Red Continental
Norman B from Life Elsewhere radio very kindly asked me to take part in his Valentine's Day show. He quizzed a panel of arty-types about...
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Kate Clarke
- Feb 11
- 2 min
Music Wednesday
I had those videos digitised The ones that sat in a slouching stack. “Yeah, I must get around to that," you said. Too late – they’re...
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Kate Clarke
- Jan 23
- 1 min
Moon Songs
Terry wrote more moon songs than anyone I know. He loved other people's moon songs too, particularly that heartbreaker from Jimmy Webb....
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Kate Clarke
- Jan 19
- 2 min
Luke Wright
Luke Wright is touring. Go and see him if you can - he's a smart, bright talent and while he's excellent at 40-something he'll be even...
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Kate Clarke
- Dec 30, 2021
- 1 min
McIlroy
There’s a photograph taken with a neighbour’s camera of you on McIlroy hill with your mother. Her curls blowing into her eyes, she’s...
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Kate Clarke
- Dec 11, 2021
- 2 min
Mick Green - Archive
Mick Green I'd forgotten I'd written this obituary - 11 January 2010 - for Mick Green. He was bloody great. For those of us who saw one...
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Kate Clarke
- Nov 30, 2021
- 3 min
Dunblane, The Alan Water, Tom Thumb Drops, Square Pies.
We used to go to Dunblane every year to see Terry's mum, Florrie. I'm fond of that little town. It has a soft character and charm about...
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