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Spike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. He received his first education in a tent in the Hyderabad Sindh desert and graduated from there, through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England, to the Lewisham Polytechnic.
He then plunged into the world of Show Business, seduced by his first stage appearance, at the age of eight, in the nativity play of his Poona convent school. He began his career as a band musician, but has since become famous as a humorous scriptwriter and actor in both films and broadcasting. Spike received an honorary CBE in 1992.
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For example: in an attempt to get rid of her husband, one of the characters in the book goes to her attorney. He explains that just wanting a divorce doesn't necessarily achieve a divorce in Ireland, that she must prove some form of abuse or unfaithfulness. "Has he ever been unfaithful?" The attorney asks... "Aha, I think we've got him there!" Cries the wife, "I know for a fact he wasn't the father of me last two children!"
Then there are the law partners who scratch their heads in amazement letting little showers of dandruff accumulate on their desks as they ponder over the will of Dan Doonan. They don't know how to execute his will, but one thing they do know is that it will take a lot of time and money, because Dan Doonan died leaving everything... to himself!
The the poor, powerfully built farmer O'Mara, who, after being deserted by his wife and losing his children, was cut from a man who 'laughed and loved life, to a walking dead.'
From helpless laughter to the depths of empathy, the reader is tossed about emotionally like a leaf in a stream and, for the most part, falls in love with the little imaginary town of Pukoon. To say this book allows one a better understanding of the Irish is a gross understatement.
Well worth reprinting and well worth the purchase price.
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