‘They never forgot their roots’: Charlestown proud of Gallagher link as Oasis tour reaches Ireland | Ireland

TOMigration, the heart of Charlestown tears: the young people took the boat to the UK, and the derelict houses and shutter shops are left behind, a turning point in the 1968 book, the death of an Irish town.

Some of them returned to this corner of Mayo district – English accent and city roads – with children who grew up in the summer holidays before they disappeared along the Sea of Ireland and left Charlestown.

For those who remain, this melancholic history may be a reason to look at anger, but this week, at least a measure of pride and pride brings oasis in the form of oasis.

Liam and Christmas Gallagher will take the stage at Dublin this weekend and are expected to remind Ireland and global fans that they are part of the Irish diaspora and that Charlestown resembles a spiritual house.

“We are very proud of our relationship with men,” said John Casey, a famous Gaelic footballer and resident of Gallagher brothers. “They were often visitors here before and after fame.”

The musicians were born and grew up in Manchester, but their mothers Peggy dragged them to “ear” to spend their summer holidays with their relatives in Mayo, and remembered in the interview with Noel 1996 RTé. “Nettles, fields and hay heaps and all of the likes of all of these, so we were determined to give us some Irish culture, and it was a cultural shock, but we grew up to love it and we still do it.”

According to Lore, young visitors guaranteed the skeptical natives one day they would be famous. In the mid -1990s, after cool Britannia’s emblems, they continued to visit their grandmother Margaret Sweeney until 2000, and went for runs and walks, including Croagh Patrick, a Catholic pilgrimage area in the case of Liam. Casey accompanied the singer to the summit, “cloudy, we could not see much, but he loved,” he said.

When both brothers entered a Pub, the word sometimes spread and drew bus loads of fans from all over the region, Casey Casey said. “This was my first experience of madness. But often we tried to allow them, we tried not to let them be uncomfortable or uncomfortable.”

Charlestown mourned when Oasis left in 2009, and last year, Dublin celebrated a re -merger tour on Saturdays and Sundays to Dublin’s Croke Park Stadium. “When we heard that they revived something, there were too many relaxed people here,” Casey said.

It was photographed in Gallaghers bars for years and someone video Liam joins a traditional music session at the local JJ Finan’s, but the winning thing on the Natives was a low -key normality that contradicted the brothers’s appearance of hell raising in England.

Outside Charlestown, Donal Healy, Irish West Airport Marketing Manager, said, “There was no guitar butter and they always took time to chat with staff.”

Healy’s journalist John Healy wrote the death book of an Irish town, Nobody stopped!This chronic the Calamitous decline of his town. This decline was part of a wider phenomenon in rural Ireland, but since the economy began in the mid -1990s, the local and national population has returned.

The title interprets a interviewer who says that no part of Irish society is not inevitable to say that mass migration is not inevitable.

Donal Healy, a young Peggy Sweeney, another Irish immigrant Tommy Gallagher, who directed to seek a job in Manchester, the poverty of the 1960s, another Irish immigrant immigrant immigrant Tommy Gallagher – is not married anymore. “For Charlestown, an almost complete circle, the fact that we have this connection with the family. We know for the right reason.”

As the concerts approach, the excitement increases. Radio stations fill the air waves with speculation about oasis songs and whether the brothers can make a surprise visit to the town. A football team was shot in the town square of Oasis and a café, “Roll with him” with the slogan “Oasis Soup” put the menu – refers to the 1995 hits.

Karena Finn, who showed the photo of Liam with his son while visiting Johnny’s Bar a few years ago, said, “People come to town because of the connection.

A customer named Anne, an immigrant in Ireland, praised Gallaghers for feeding their ties with Ireland. “For all the mistakes that may have,” he said, “They never forgot their roots.”