c-span: sligo? guest: in sligo, yeah. c-span: county sligo. guest: yeah. yeah. yeah. c-span: why are you there? guest: malachy and i did a show called "a couple of blagards" about growing up in ireland and then our adventures in limerick and--in america, rather. and we did it in sligo at the hawks worth theater in 1985. oh, god, me in the army, ft. dix, new jersey, with my old girlfriend, ema mcmanus and my mother visiting the recruit. c-span: when you see this picture--and we showed it earlier--d--any anger left? guest: no, i--no. i just feel sorry for his wasted life--my father's wasted life. if it wasn't for the drink, he would have been the perfect father. c-span: what's the best thing about him that you remember? guest: his--what he had in his head, the stories, the legends, his sensitivity to irish history, his yearning, i think--his yearning to have been--for--his yearning for a part in the struggle... (unintelligible.) c-span: who named the book and here's again the picture of your mother and the four boys. guest: who named the book? c-span: who named the book