{"id":3811,"date":"2018-02-15T09:23:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T09:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2018-02-15T09:23:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T09:23:59","slug":"band-hall-chris-thackaberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=3811","title":{"rendered":"Band Hall: Chris Thackaberry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Chris Thackaberry<\/span><\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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Band Hall<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Shutter front pound can<\/span><\/p>\n

Blue bag – bodies deep<\/span><\/p>\n

Mass grave of side drums<\/span><\/p>\n

Spill out from wall<\/span><\/p>\n

A salient of illegal gatherers\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

No eleven plus one required<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Skinny girl clearing table<\/span><\/p>\n

Giggling out the penny<\/span><\/p>\n

Her boy – ‘burrrbs’ out<\/span><\/p>\n

“A light shown in the night”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Swaggering polyester uniforms<\/span><\/p>\n

Cut the smoke<\/span><\/p>\n

Ash trays – cheap beer- spray tan<\/span><\/p>\n

Loyalist tunes – urban voice<\/span><\/p>\n

But real<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

No Surrender<\/span><\/p>\n

Grained out of jax door<\/span><\/p>\n

Pen and ink proclaim<\/span><\/p>\n

To educational disavantage?<\/span><\/p>\n

Political manipulation?<\/span><\/p>\n

No big houses in the inner East<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Only – red, white, blue – people<\/span><\/p>\n

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