Chris Thackaberry is a protestant born and bred in Dublin. He is an Orangeman and sits on the Central Committee of the Grand Orange Lodge. He works in Belfast but is regularly in the city of Carson. Thackaberry is on the Central Committee of the Grand Orange Lodge.
Band Hall
Shutter front pound can
Blue bag – bodies deep
Mass grave of side drums
Spill out from wall
A salient of illegal gatherers
No eleven plus one required
Skinny girl clearing table
Giggling out the penny
Her boy – ‘burrrbs’ out
“A light shown in the night”
Swaggering polyester uniforms
Cut the smoke
Ash trays – cheap beer- spray tan
Loyalist tunes – urban voice
But real
No Surrender
Grained out of jax door
Pen and ink proclaim
To educational disavantage?
Political manipulation?
No big houses in the inner East
Only – red, white, blue – people
