Comments on: Eugene Lambert Interview Pt. 2 – A Wanderly Beginning

By: fústar

fústar — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:27:34 +0000

Not sure, deck. Sounds vaguely familiar. Though didn’t watch Fortycoats much.

By: deck

deck — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:20:03 +0000

was there a character in wanderly wagon or fortycoats and co called magic mike?

By: fústar

fústar — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:50:25 +0000

Wanderer, I don’t remember the Clonmel excursion featuring on the intro. The intro featured on the recent DVDs is the only one I consciously recall.

Nice job on your family members’ parts getting their mugs onto the telly. No mean feat in those days.

By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:47:19 +0000

It would be brilliant if someone could dig up that footage of Wannderly Wagon in Clonmel, might have been St Patricks day, cant remember, but was probably 1974. The footage was used as the intro sequence for at least one season of the Wagon as some of my family were in it so saw themselves every week. So if anyone has a copy please let us know. Unfortunately it wasnt on the recent DVD
Delighted to see the Judges Safe Cross Code with some help from Brendan Grace re-released. Classic TV.

By: Dota

Dota — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:47:10 +0000

Can’t believe nobody knew that Bill Golding was the original fourty coats!! And may I say the better one too! Go on auld Mr. Brennen, we love your work!

By: copernicus

copernicus — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:37:30 +0000

Good old Pat may still be found selling his pomes beneath the columns of Gandon’s portico for the House of Lords on Westmoreland Street.

I think he used to freak out bourgeois parents who worried their kids might grow up to be “cool” after watching long-hair kids tv like Pat’s Hat. They needn’t have worried. Charlie McCreevy put paid to any ideas people might have had about being interesting human beings.

By: fústar

fústar — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:49:52 +0000

Neil wasn’t involved in any of the recently released episodes, but there may be some of his Wanderly stuff still in existence.

Also, it wasn’t much of a surprise to hear about Pat Ingoldsby’s involvement, to be honest, as his unique voice seems perfectly in tune with the Wanderly world.

By: copernicus

copernicus — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:00:33 +0000

It’d be interesting to see if an episode Neil wrote is still available (and not deleted). Twould be very interesting to see if any of the elements of his later work showed up in incipient form.

Our copy of Wanderly is not currently available having proved a big hit with my girlfriend’s little nephew and niece so I don’t know if a Jordan joint was included on the recent release.

Pooka McPheillmey is one of my favourite characters in literature. It makes perfect sense to get a ventriloquist to play him and the fairy in his pocket and about the saucer on his sideboard.

Back in the day sure I used to jack into the net as “the Pooka”.

By: fústar

fústar — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:15:16 +0000

So was Jordan's flirtation with Wanderly an attempt to escape from the rigid grip his father (bloody spoilsport) had on his childhood imagination? Writing for WW probably stood him in good stead, in some strange way, when he came to adapt Angela Carter's The Company of Wolves.

By: copernicus

copernicus — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:28:57 +0000

This interview is stuffed to the gills with diverting detail.

The trivia about Jordan’s dad reminds me of a story Auberon Waugh circulated about his father, Evelyn, of whose Sword of Honour trilogy I own myself a fan. During the war when banananas were in short supply (Oh yes, we have no bananas), Evelyn contrived to acquire a bunch and proceeded to eat every last one of them in front of his children over the dinner table for his dessert.

Probably at one of their birthdays.

By: foolhardy

foolhardy — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:10:15 +0000

Just had a peep at Neil Jordan’s IMDb profile and spotted the following in the trivia section:

His father, a university professor, would never let him read comic books, but read them himself so he knew what children would be interested in.

“normally I wouldn’t read this sort of thing but it’s, y’know, research.”

By: fústar

fústar — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:10:00 +0000

Cheers foolhardy.

It was news to me RE: Fortycoats as well…

As for Neil Jordan, that was a tasty bit of trivia! No mention of it on his IMDb profile by the way, but this is straight from the horse’s mouth so we defer to Eugene.

By: foolhardy

foolhardy — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:37:21 +0000

Tremendous stuff entirely,
there was me thinking that Fran “be me 40 coats and me 50 pockets” Dempsey was the one and only Fortycoats. As for poor Pádraig the horse – that colic is a curshe.
Am eagerly awaiting the next instalment.

p.s. Neil Jordan!