Liam and Noel used to be taken for summer holidays with relatives in Mayo and kept returning after finding fame
Emigration ripped the heart out of Charlestown: generations of young people took the boat to England and left behind derelict homes and shuttered shops, a hollowing chronicled in a landmark 1968 book, The Death of an Irish Town.
Some returned to this corner of County Mayo for summer holidays – with children who were growing up with English accents and city ways – before vanishing back across the Irish Sea and leaving Charlestown to its decay.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/16/charlestown-gallagher-connection-oasis-ireland
Author : Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent
Publish date : 2025-08-16 04:00:00
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