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Jazz in Ireland has long been mainstream, as per New Brass Kings performing in a street parade as part of the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. Photo: Darragh Kane Photography
I dropped a few lines into this column recently about a protest against jazz that enlivened the cultural life of Ireland almost a hundred years ago. I mentioned a march against jazz which took place in Co Leitrim, and which was recalled on Bowman: Sunday (RTÉ1, Sundays, 8.30am). But because it was a small mention, some of you may have felt it was an isolated incident in the journey of this young country.
John Bowman was here to tell us that it was more, much more than this. On last Sunday’s show he expanded on his recent treatment of these events, by describing not an isolated incident, but a “movement” against jazz: “One of the bitterest controversies to beset Irish radio.”