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Guest writer Frankie McKillen provides TPQ with some French Connection.


Growing up in Ardoyne during the conflict and going to Divis Flats to see my friends, seemed like an adventure. Do I be brave and take the first bus at Ardoyne shops, even if it meant going down the Shankill Road or play safe and wait for a bus to go down the Crumlin Road? I just wanted to see a couple of friend and listen to Jerry Reed singing about Rockin' in Baghdad. Then I go home and hear Ray Stevens singing about Ahab the Arab on the radio. And I'd wonder, where is Baghdad and what's an Arab when he's at home? I had heard about south Armagh, Republicans and Loyalists. One day I figured out Baghdad was in Iraq and Arabs are more or less Muslims.

From the shithole of Belfast to the arsehole of Europe: Tales of a Belfast rockabilly..