Storey walked the streets and across the strictly drawn religious border lines of Belfast as a unifying force.
In Belfast, Gerry Storey and the Holy Family Boxing Club in the north of the city earned a reputation in the most troubled days of 1970s violence as a space where Catholics and Protestants were welcome. I just did a Mr Coffee commercial, I’m a spokesman for the Bowery Savings Bank and I haven’t gone anywhere,” said DiMaggio. “What I don’t understand is why you ask where have I gone. But DiMaggio’s famous response was probably too locker-room literal for the author. One line in the song plaintively asks ‘where have you gone Joe DiMaggio?’Īt the time, the slugger didn’t understand Simon meant it as a lament for times past that have vanished, for heroes that no longer occupy a space in people’s lives and who cannot be replaced. The original 1968 song ‘Mrs Robinson’ was written for the film ‘The Graduate’ and refers to the New York Yankees player Joe DiMaggio, widely regarded as one of the best baseball players of all time.Įdgy Joe later found wider celebrity, when he married the famously misunderstood Marilyn Monroe for all of nine months. This week’s confluence of events, rioting in Belfast along the Springfield and Shankill roads and faction fighting in Irish boxing, all painfully exposed in an Oireachtas hearing, prompted the same question that folk singers Simon and Garfunkel asked 52 years ago.
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