The soft wind blows
Jan 8th, 2012 | By Ian Poulton | Category: IrelandPhilip King’s ‘The South Wind Blows’ plays softly on the radio; his voice as gentle as the unnatural mildness of the January night; the RTE programme conjuring an Ireland that might have seemed dead to one living in Dublin during the Tiger years.
There was an attractiveness in soft accents and soft landscapes during years in the North. The strident denunciation of all things ‘Irish’ by voices certain of their righteousness was something that pained. An unhappy man would write angry letters to the ‘Belfast Telegraph’ signing himself as ‘Non-Celt’ …