{"id":102401,"date":"2025-10-04T07:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/102401\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T07:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:22:11","slug":"larry-kirwan-life-under-megalomaniac-trump-is-exhausting-and-the-damage-will-take-generations-to-clear-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/102401\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Kirwan: \u2018Life under megalomaniac Trump is exhausting and the damage will take generations to clear up\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Wexford native, Black 47 frontman, author, and writer of Tony-Award winning Broadway musical \u2018Paradise Square\u2019 Larry Kirwan talks of life in Trump\u2019s US, censorship, fears of the undocumented Irish and how an old band leader&#8217;s advice helped him through a shooting at a gig\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Larry Kirwan.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1ae70daa-9b69-4a62-99b2-18d3f0b19480.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Larry Kirwan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In many ways, Wexford man Larry Kirwan is the embodiment of the long-heralded \u2018American Dream\u2019. When he and fellow Wexford man and musician Pierce Turner arrived into New York in the late 70s, they did so with just their instruments and a dream. To expand their horizons beyond a sepia tone Ireland of that era; to find their tribe; to make art of lasting consequence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">From an undocumented young musician, speeding around America in a clapped out Dodge Polara, Larry went on to found and front the legendary band Black 47 alongside Chris Byrne. He also became an accomplished author and a Tony Award-nominated playwright for his critically acclaimed Broadway masterpiece, and Tony Award-winning, Paradise Square.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wexford native, Black 47 frontman, author, and writer of Tony-Award winning Broadway musical \u2018Paradise Square\u2019 Larry Kirwan talks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,7583],"class_list":{"0":"post-102401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-padraig-byrne"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}