In Short

  • The land of the GUBU

  • By Conor Cruise O'Brien
  • GUBU is in the news again. And not just in this country either. Would you believe The Times of London? Yes indeed, there he was, as large as life, main headline on page 3 of The Times last Thursday, 13th January, like this:
  • Grotesque
  • Unbelievable
  • Bizarre
  • Unprecedented
  • "GUBU," The Times informs its readers, "is a word made up of the initial letters of" etc ., see above. The Times doesn't tell its readers who made the word up. The Times (London) was ever slow to give an Irishman his due. Look at O'Connell, look at Parnell. Still, readers of this column know where the word GUBU first saw the light of day (this column, The Irish Times, 24th August, 1982) and that is enough . . .
    From Tuesday, Jan 18, 1983

  • 'We don't want to be a cult band'

  • "We want to develop musically," says Bono, "and success is the only thing that will allow that . . . what we are trying to say is relevant, and the music will catch on; we're not a cult band. We don't want to be a cult band." [U2's first interview in The Irish Times]
    From Friday, Dec 14, 1979

  • Journalists' phones tapped

  • By Peter Murtagh
  • The telephones of two prominent political journalists were being tapped by Mr Haughey's Government, The Irish Times learned last night.
  • The journalists concerned are Mr Bruce Arnold, a political columnist and reporter with the Irish Independent, and Miss Geraldine Kennedy, political correspondent of the Sunday Press, formerly of the Sunday Tribune. It is believed the tapping of their phones was conducted officially and on foot of warrants.
    From Saturday, Dec 18, 1982

  • Death of former Archbishop

  • The former Archbishop of Dublin, Most Rev John Charles McQuaid, D.D., died in St Colmcille's Hospital Loughlinstown, Co Dublin. Aged 77, he had been Archbishop from 1940 until his retirement early last year.
  • Yesterday as the remains lay in state in the chapel of the hospital, tributes were paid . . . by the Taoiseach, Mr Cosgrave, and other political leaders and by the leaders of various religious communities in the State.
  • Dr McQuaid is believed to have suffered two heart attacks in the space of a few hours on Saturday morning.
    From Monday April 9, 1973.

  • Excellent show at the Embankment

  • Liam Clancy stars as a soloist in the current show at the Embankment, Tallaght, which runs until Friday. His songs are from "divers" sources, his most striking piece (well worth the journey itself) being "The Midnight Court" excerpt . . . Compere Brendan Cauldwell, who has quite a lot to do, copes admirably . . . he and Liam vie in hopping between accents and idioms as a sort of tour-de-force. Some subjects are overdone, but made up for by his exhibition of Micheál MacLiammoir. - GDH
    From Tuesday, May 18, 1971

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