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	Encyclopedia: Larry Kirwan
		No, Larry KirwanÂ’s just released first novel, Liverpool Fantasy, isnÂ’t James Joyce, and it isnÂ’t intended to be, but as Kirwan wished for in a Black 47 song it appears that the bandleader and songwriter has finally gotten laid on JoyceÂ’s grave, hoping the author's genius would rub off on him.
		Kirwan's work "has revealed a restless, playful and bold experimentation that freely mixes comedy, tragedy, drama, farce, satire, music, politics, and history." Because music is an essential part of all of his plays and his novel, it is hard to separate the playwright-novelist from the rock musician-composer.
		Kirwan was born and grew up in Co. Wexford, where he lived with his mother (his father was away at sea for most of the year) until he was 9 or 10, and then with his maternal grandfather, an unrepentant republican.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Larry-Kirwan (468 words)

	Larry Kirwan: Liverpool Fantasy
		Although the focus of the novel is on Paul's reunion with his former bandmates, Kirwan also provides glimpses of British society in the mid-eighties, which all revolve around the rise of a fascist political party, the National Front of the United Kingdom (NFUK, or Fronters).
		Kirwan is strongest when he is providing a character study of his four main characters, although none of them really come to life beyond the anxieties each suffers from their years as failures and their impending reunion with the only member of the one-time band to leave Liverpool and achieve some success.
		However, Kirwan does a good job of getting into the heads of people who feel that they may have missed their best chance and now have a chance to revisit it.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/kirwan.html (615 words)

	Larry Kirwan, Liverpool Fantasy
		Kirwan gives the reader a view into the lives that could have been had this infamous clash of personalities ended in a break before it really had a chance to take off — but then decided, twenty-five years later, to give it another go.
		But then he'd lose track of their antics as he soared with George's fiery, fluid solos, and when he came back down to Earth, he'd find that they had him spiked to the floor in that indefinable but particular rhythmic space where all great rock and roll hovers, halfway between the hammer and the anvil.
		Liverpool Fantasy is wonderfully detailed and entirely believable as alternative history because Larry Kirwan's knowledge of the inner workings (read: conflicting egos) of a rock band — from his own with Black 47 — make every page shine.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_kirwan_liverpoolfantasy.html (620 words)

	[Chorus and Verse] June 2003 Feature: Larry Kirwan
		Kirwan's tale attempts to not only play with how the lives of these individuals would have evolved over the last part of the twentieth century, but how the world itself would have been very different.
		Kirwan's work pays tribute to the Fab Four by crediting them with bringing a sense of idealism to the world through their music.
		As Kirwan embarks on a promotional tour for the book, Chorus and Verse spoke with him about the novel, and the early news about the new record from Black 47, which will hopefully be released by the end of the year.
	www.chorusandverse.com /content/200306/20030601_LarryKirwan.htm (4511 words)

	Book Review of Green Suede Shoes Larry Kirwan
		Larry Kirwan is the leader of Black 47, a band that achieved a level of fame in the 1990s with audiences who took to the fusion of rock and Irish music.
		But while Kirwan was living the somewhat unreal existence playing in various bands, his life seems relatively sane compared to those of some of his compatriots, a number of whom come to sorry ends.
		Kirwan notes that his desire for privacy was among the reasons Black 47 did not rise to the pinnacle of commercial success.
	thecelebritycafe.com /books/full_review/419.html (577 words)

	Daily Freeman - News - 03/09/2001 - Black 47 to wreak iconoclastic rock on Poughkeepsie
		The current lineup, Larry Kirwan, Geoffrey Blythe, Andrew Goodsight, Thomas Hamlin, Fred Parcells, and Josepth Mulvanerty, will be appearing on Saturday evening at The Chance, 6 Crannell St., Poughkeepsie.
		Larry Kirwan: It was with a lot of people.
		Larry Kirwan: It's pretty tense because you can't expect something going on for so many hundred years - now-a-days we like to see everything tidied up and put in an envelope and put away.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=1515923&BRD=1769&PAG=461&dept_id=74969&rfi=8 (1874 words)

	Keltic Kids CD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Larry Kirwan, leader of New York-based Irish rock group Black 47, has released a children's album.
		Larry Kirwan is one of the most inventive songwriters of the day.
		All the songs on Keltic Kids were written by Larry Kirwan with the exception of "Wild Colonial Boy," which he learned as a boy from his babysitter.
	www.celtictv.com /keltickids.htm (902 words)

	Black47_1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In addition to being the front man for Black 47, one of the hardest-working bands in the business, he is also a respected solo artist, an author and playwright, an actor, a husband and father, and a political activist.
		What then made me a loyal fan was the quality of Kirwan's thought-provoking lyrics, which have the power to raise a whole gamut of emotions, from laughter, to anger, to sorrow.
		The band's present line-up features Kirwan on lead vocals, guitar, and drum machine; Geoff Blythe on saxophones; Fred Parcells on trombone and tin whistles; Tom "Hammy" Hamlin on drums and Humorous Stage Antics; Andrew Goodsight on bass; and Joe Mulvanerty on uilleann pipes, tin whistles, flute, and bodhran.
	www.celticcafe.com /Music/kirwan/Black47_1.html (925 words)

	Kilroy Was Here (Larry Kirwan)
		Kirwan works with an interesting mix of outstanding musicians on this CD and the overall performance is excellent.
		I have long been an admirer of Kirwan's work, and while I knew this effort would be a good and noble one, there was no way I could have known just how much so, until I could listen alone and concentrate on the material.
		Kirwan speaks of ''duende'' in his essay about the CD, which he has posted on the Black 47's website, but I am at a loss for what this might mean.
	johnkeyes.com /a/B0000589E7-kilroy-was-here.html (1204 words)

	REVIEWS IN BRIEF
		In Larry Kirwan's audacious first novel, "Liverpool Fantasy," the Fab Four split in 1962.
		Kirwan, leader of the Irish American rock group Black 47, adapted the book from his original play, capturing both the nitty-gritty details of rollicking jam sessions and the foul-mouthed ribaldry of Liverpudlian pub culture.
		Kirwan focuses on the band members' personal grievances, failing to speculate meaningfully on the loss their breakup might wreak on rock's evolution.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/06/29/RV248055.DTL&type=printable (248 words)

	Nude as the News: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kirwan says he picks his subjects from those who were on the cusp of major movements and who truly impacted the times they lived in.
		The band, including Kirwan, uilleann pipes player/vocalist Chris Byrne, saxophonist and former Dexy’s Midnight Runners member Geoffrey Blythe, trombonist Fred Parcels, bassist Andrew Goodsight, and drummer Thomas Hamlin, are one of the tightest groups around, and their live show is among one the most entertaining.
		Kirwan has a number of full-blown plays, which has had a direct impact on his songwriting.
	www.nudeasthenews.com /features/20 (934 words)

	November 2004 Minutes
		Doyle took the title of his talk from an interview with Larry Kirwan--in which Kirwan describes the experience of playing great rock and roll as being "in the pocket"--and used the expression as a metaphor to describe the nature of his creative process.
		Following a three-year hiatus, Kirwan returned to a project he had begun earlier—a novelised version of Liverpool Fantasy, in which the character’s backgrounds are more fully developed and the sub-plot of the rise of the National Front is more successfully integrated.
		Larry said of it that there is not a line out of place.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/seminars/IrishStudies/Nov_2004_minutes.html (1237 words)

	Larry Kirwan, Keltic Kids
		Larry Kirwan, as the voice of Black 47, is a red-headed, Irish-American icon of hard drinking, loud rocking, vigorous swearing, wild womanizing and spitting in the face of authority.
		Kirwan's vocals are as strong as ever, and the music behind him is as eclectic as it ever was, drawing particularly from Irish, American and reggae roots.
		Kirwan wrote the lyrics for everything here but one song, "The Wild Colonial Boy," a traditional Irish-Australian ballad he learned in his own childhood from a favorite babysitter.
	www.rambles.net /kirwan_kids.html (452 words)

	OFFOFFOFF music BLACK 47 band with Larry Kirwan, Chris Byrne, Fred Parcells, Geoffrey Blythe, Thomas Hamlin, Andrew ...
		Larry Kirwan fled to America when the father of a pregnant Irish lass told him, "You've got two choices, castration or a one-way ticket to New York!"
		Kirwan has now populated four studio albums — plus a fifth due in January — with jaunty characters like this.
		There is, for example, the hero of the fan favorite "Czechoslovakia" (lyrics), who is sent on a mission to marry "the finest girl in Prague" and then visit the pope, plans that both go awry.
	www.offoffoff.com /music/dec99/black47.php3 (678 words)

	Welcome to Dave's On Tour!
		When Black 47 guitarist/vocalist Larry Kirwan sat down to answer some questions for davesontour.com, he was sitting on his skinny arse at home in the depths of Lower Manhattan, with a couple of bottles of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale fermenting in his gut!
		LARRY: Those things mean nothing to me. I enjoy traveling but I'd sooner play in a shed in Jersey City with a crowd than in a castle in Bavaria with no one in attendance.
		LARRY: Well, I would say those shows at the old Academy of Music or the Palladium when The Clash played were as close to rock 'n' roll heaven as I'm ever likely to experience.
	www.davesontour.com /interviews/kirwin.html (2827 words)

	Larry Kirwan - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Irish expatriate singer/songwriter and playwright Larry Kirwan is best known as the leader of the band Black 47, formed in 1989, which plays Celtic-tinged folk-rock and has recorded for several labels, including SBK, Mercury, Shanachie, and Gadfly.
		Kirwan has also written a series of plays that have been produced in the U.S. and Europe, five of which were published in the..
		Kirwan has also written a series of plays that have been produced in the U.S. and Europe, five of which were published in the book -Mad Angels (1993).
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,453795,00.html (225 words)

	CD Reviews: Badfinger, Larry Kirwan, Matchbox Twenty, Bill Carter, Black 47
		Larry Kirwan’s Kilroy Was Here, his first solo adult excursion away from New York City’s resident Irish rock band, Black 47, (His children’s disc, Keltic Kids, was his first solo CD) manages to be one of those rare instances when lyrics and music complement each other perfectly.
		On the "History of Ireland" Kirwan simply and chronologically tells us all about the tragic history of his homeland, but the bright, upbeat, playful arrangement seems to tell us that Ireland has maintained her pride and better days are ahead.
		Kirwan smartly makes sure none of the songs from the first live disc are repeated on the sixty-plus minutes of On Fire so if you play the discs back to back you will get a real sense of what a full two hour Black 47 stage show is like.
	www.angelfire.com /music3/cdreviewsonline/page6.html (3326 words)

	Not all happy riots and righteous parties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kirwan's profoundly political view of life is definitely there, but it is much more subtly expressed, far more integrated into the fabric of the lives (his own included) which he sketches on this intricate musical “novel”.
		Kirwan's autobiographical young hero joins his strong mother in her lonely pain, yet uses the guitar his visiting father gave him to carve a niche for himself in the world.
		Kirwan sharply observed the struggle of generations, even literary ones: his narrator in “Molly” is insane with love for James Joyce's lusty fictional daughter/lover Molly Bloom, and literally loses himself in the pages of Joyce's Ulysses.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2001/446/446p26.htm (968 words)

	ttgapers.com store - Green Suede Shoes : An Irish-American Odyssey - Larry Kirwan - Product Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kirwan is the real deal: he and his bandmates are committed to their music and their fans, and that bond has made them "New York's House Band" for fifteen years; they respond to requests shouted out, to e-mails sent, and mingle with the crowd after the show.
		Whether one is a devotee of Larry Kirwan's life's work, or a follower of Black 47 music, or simply an Irish-American - or any-American - here one will find a work of literature that is honest, bold and sensitive.
		Like much of Larry Kirwan and Black 47's work, parents can share it with their own children, and children should share it with their parents.
	www.ttgapers.com /ttStore-index2-asin-1560256443.html (1049 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kirwan took over vocals, Byrne the uilleann pipes and the tin whistle; they added Fred Parcells on the trombone, former Dexy's Midnight Runners member Geoffrey Blythe on sax, Andrew Goodsight (who replaced Kevin Jenkins) on bass and Thomas Hamlin on drums.
		A punk musician with a poet's soul, Kirwan has a literary bent that comes through in his lyrics, which are rich with effusive imagery and references to Joyce and Yeats.
		Larry Kirwan: Yeah, that's one of the problems with Ireland.
	chicago.citysearch.com /feature/19782 (1656 words)

	Dirty Linen #102 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It's the end of a cross country trek, and Larry Kirwan of Black 47 is glad to be home.
		At the same time, Kirwan was putting the finishing touches on Kilroy Was Here, his solo project, as well as Liverpool Fantasy, his first novel, which imagines a world in which the Beatles never crossed the Atlantic.
		Kirwan points to the Clash, Otis Redding, and Bruce Springsteen as his own key influences.
	www.dirtynelson.com /linen/102/black47.html (551 words)

	Authors: Larry Kirwan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ARRY KIRWAN is the leader/singer/songwriter/guitarist of the New York Irish rock group Black 47.
		Kirwan has also recorded two solo CDs: Keltic Kids, for children of all ages, and Kilroy Was Here, which was released in March 2001.
		In 1994 Kirwan was voted one of the hundred coolest people in New York, with Madonna three places behind.
	www.twbookmark.com /authors/40/2317 (193 words)

	REQUIEM FOR 1847: Larry Kirwan
		LARRY KIRWAN is a small, bone-thin man with light red hair.
		Sipping mineral water at his loft in lower Manhattan, Kirwan remembers, "As my grandfather got older and started to revert into childhood, he was constantly dredging up memories of speaking to his father, and also had this folk memory of it, which blamed Britain intensely for what had happened".
		Kirwan notes that while the Famine interrupted the Gaelic oral tradition, the tongue was already losing ground.
	www.rootsworld.com /rw/feature/famine_kirwan.html (855 words)

	G21 POWERSSOUND - "Kirwan's Celtic Solo Gem"
		Kirwan's brand new album, "Kilroy Was Here" (Gadfly Records) could well become the major Celtic hit of 2001.
		Next comes Kirwan's superb version of Paul Simon's "The Only Living Boy in New York." The album's title song, "Kilroy Was Here," isn't the comic number you would expect.
		Kirwan is not only a musician, but a talented playwright.
	www.g21.net /ps107.html (939 words)

	SFBG A and E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Larry Kirwan's 1986 play Liverpool Fantasy is a part-cheeky, part-accusatory riposte to just my kind of ingratitude.
		Playwright Kirwan (himself a Brit-born bandleader for NYC's Gaelic rock unit Black 47) doesn't stick to that satiric strain for long, however, and his play -- strung between disparate, incompletely realized goals -- slowly unravels.
		Kirwan wants to both mock and celebrate the Fab Four legend; he wants to mourn the dead end England became for working-class youth.
	www.sfbg.com /AandE/30/09/112995theat.html (721 words)

	Larry Kirwan: Kilroy Was Here / RootsWorld Recording Review
		Larry Kirwan is best known as leader/song-writer of rebel-rockers Black 47, often seen in a packed New York pub, his fist upraised, shouting, "So here's to YOU, Revolution!
		Kirwan's own father was a merchant seamen, forced by economic realities to leave his family for long voyages to South America and beyond.
		Kirwan's autobiographical young hero joins his strong mother in her lonely pain, yet uses the guitar his visiting father gave him to carve a niche for himself in the wide wide world.
	www.rootsworld.com /reviews/kirwan-kilroy.shtml (747 words)

	Rhodeirish.net
		In addition to his work with Black 47, Kirwan is also a well regarded playwright with ten produced plays and musicals.
		Displacement is the theme in "Fatima," in which an immigrant Muslim girl falls in love with a Christian and must decide on the claims of family or America.
		Kirwan hasn't left Black '47 for a solo career, but one hopes that we'll see more strong solo work like this in the future.
	www.rhodeirish.net /reviews/cdreview/08-01_kirwan.htm (240 words)

	Larry Kirwan"Kilroy Was Here"
		Kirwanâs cinematic songs of New York street life and political upheaval have been used in movies such as Into The West, The Break, The Saint of Fort Washington, Looking For an Echo, etc. and are staples in political and social TV documentaries.
		Kirwan is currently adapting Liverpool Fantasy to a novel.
		On a brief hiatus from Black 47, Kirwan will be touring the country in support of Kilroy in March/April and introducing acoustic Black 47 songs in vignettes from his one man show Rockin The Bronx.
	www.gadflyrecords.com /products/273.htm (418 words)

	Black 47: Elvis Murphy's Green Suede Shoes - PopMatters Music Review
		Kirwan's songs are overstuffed with hyperromantic ravings, undisciplined wordplay, and things no honest man would say.
		Kirwan knows that he is an Irish bullshit artist in a long line of them.
		This tale, in which Uncle Jim and the young Larry Kirwan get hassled by Orangemen while on a whiskey-fueled trip to try to meet Ian Paisley, is completely unbelievable in all ways...
	popmatters.com /music/reviews/b/black47-elvismuphys.shtml (733 words)

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