{"id":166165,"date":"2025-11-06T14:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/166165\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:17:15","slug":"hothouse-flowers-liam-o-maonlai-on-who-and-what-inspired-his-heartfelt-song-dont-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/166165\/","title":{"rendered":"Hothouse Flower&#8217;s Liam \u00d3 Maonla\u00ed on\u00a0who and what inspired his heartfelt song Don\u2019t Go"},"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\">\nThe Hothouse Flower on the tragic inspiration for his band\u2019s 1988 hit, \u2018Don\u2019t Go\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hothouse Flowers, 1988, in Munich. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SF HF 1.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)\">Hothouse Flowers, 1988, in Munich. Photo: Getty<\/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)\">Liam \u00d3 Maonla\u00ed\u2019s phone was ringing out last Saturday morning. \u201cWe were scattering the ashes of Manch\u00e1n Magan on the Hill of Uisneach in Co Westmeath,\u201d he says when I finally get him. \u201cThat\u2019s where I was.\u201d<\/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)\">It is fitting, then, I was ringing him to discuss a song he wrote and sang with Hothouse Flowers almost four decades ago: about a friend, the artist Eamon Fitzgibbon, who was in a coma from a motorcycle accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hothouse Flower on the tragic inspiration for his band\u2019s 1988 hit, \u2018Don\u2019t Go\u2019 Hothouse Flowers, 1988, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,23942],"class_list":{"0":"post-166165","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-people-culture-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115503185917468430","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166165","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=166165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}