I Read the News Today, Oh Boy

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by Paul Howard

I would like to say a huge thank you to my superb solicitors, John Whelan and Alison Quinn of A&L Goodbody. And I am grateful to former Sunday Tribune editor Noirin Hegarty and magazine editor Fionnuala McCarthy for commissioning the original feature about Tara Browne.

Lastly, I would like to thank my wife, Mary McCarthy, who for ten years has borne my obsession with telling this story with good cheer and who kept me going with encouraging words and excellent breakfasts. Mary, I am sorry for all the times I was absent, either physically or mentally, while writing this book. For your patience and your understanding, there are no words, other than I love you.

Index

Aberfan disaster 1966, ref1

Ad Lib club, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

Adler, Stella, ref1

Algeria, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Amis, Kingsley, ref1, ref2

Andrews, Pat, ref1

Animals, The, ref1, ref2

anti-Semitism, ref1

Antibes Jazz Festival, ref1

Apple Tailoring, ref1, ref2

aristocracy

new, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

old, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13

Armstrong, Louis, ref1

Armstrong-Jones, Anthony, first Earl of Snowdon, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

art, ref1, ref2

Asher, Jane, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Ashley, April (formerly George Jamieson), ref1, ref2, ref3

Astaire, Fred, ref1, ref2

Autosport magazine, ref1, ref2

Bach, Johann Sebastian, ref1, ref2

Bailey, David, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Baldwin, Betty, ref1, ref2

Baldwin, Stanley, ref1, ref2

Balenciaga, Cristobel, ref1

Balfour, A. J., ref1

Ballcock and Browne, ref1

Balthus, ref1

Barry, Margaret, ref1

Bazaar (boutique), ref1, ref2

BBC, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Beach Boys, The, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Pet Sounds, ref1, ref2, ref3

Beardsley, Aubrey, ref1

Beat Music (Merseybeat), ref1, ref2, ref3

Beat the Devil (1953), ref1, ref2

Beatlemania, ref1, ref2, ref3

Beatles, The, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20

‘A Day in the Life’, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

A Hard Day’s Night, ref1, ref2

Anthology, ref1

‘From Me to You’, ref1, ref2

‘Getting Better’, ref1

‘Help!’, ref1, ref2

Help! (1965), ref1, ref2

‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’, ref1, ref2

‘Love Me Do’, ref1, ref2

‘Please Please Me’, ref1, ref2

Please Please Me, ref1

Revolver, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Rubber Soul, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, ref1, ref2, ref3

‘She Loves You’, ref1, ref2

Beaton, Cecil, ref1, ref2, ref3

bebop, ref1

Bee Gees, The, ref1

Beeby, Michael, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Behan, Beatrice, ref1, ref2, ref3

Behan, Brendan, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19

Borstal Boy, ref1

death, ref1

‘Herod Complex’, ref1

The Hostage, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Behan, Dominic, ref1

Beit, Sir Alfred, ref1, ref2, ref3

Belmondo, Jean-Paul, ref1

Belville, Hercules, ref1, ref2

Bernstein, Sidney, ref1

Berry, Chuck, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Best, Pete, ref1

Bet-Zuri, Eliyahu, ref1

Betjeman, Candida, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

Betjeman, John, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Biggs, Ronnie, ref1

Binder, Douglas, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

Bishop, Molly, ref1

Blackman, Margaret, ref1

Blackshirts, ref1

Blackwood, Lady Caroline, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

Blakey, Art, ref1

Bogart, Humphrey, ref1, ref2

Bond, James, ref1, ref2

Bonnano, Joseph, ref1, ref2

Boone, Steve, ref1

Bowie, David, ref1

Boyd, Patti, ref1, ref2

Boyle, Michael, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

Brady, Ian, ref1

Brands Hatch, ref1, ref2

Brennan, Diarmuid, ref1

Bright Young People, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12

Brinckman, Napoleon, ref1

Brinckman, Theodora, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

Brodie, Reverend Hugh, ref1, ref2, ref3

Brodie, Lettice, ref1

Brodie, Philip, ref1

Brook, Charles Vyner, ref1

Brougham, Victor, ref1, ref2

Brown, Clifford, ref1, ref2

Brown, Oscar, Junior, ref1, ref2

Browne, Baby, ref1, ref2, ref3

Browne, Brigit/Brigid, ref1, ref2

Browne, Constance Vera, Baroness Oranmore and Browne (née Constance Stevens; also Sally Gray), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

Browne, Dominick, first Baron Oranmore and Browne (Tara’s great-great-grandfather), ref1

Browne, Dominick (Tara’s half-brother), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

Browne, Dominick Geoffrey Edward, fourth Baron Oranmore and Browne, second Baron Mereworth (Tara’s father), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33

Browne, the Honourable Garech Domnagh (Tara’s brother), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18

adultery, ref1

birth, ref1, ref2

childhood and teenage years, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

and the Claddagh Records label, ref1, ref2

different nature from Tara, ref1, ref2

education, ref1

on the end of Tara’s marriage, ref1

and his mother’s death, ref1

on his mother’s scrutiny of Nicki Browne, ref1, ref2

and his twin ‘siblings’, ref1

and step-father Miguel Ferreras, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15

and Tara’s death, ref1, ref2, ref3

on Tara’s marriage, ref1

and Tara’s twenty-first-birthday party, ref1

teenage romance, ref1

twenty-first birthday, ref1

Browne, Geoffrey, third Lord Oranmore and Browne, first Baron Mereworth (Tara’s paternal grandfather), ref1, ref2

Browne, Dr Ivor, ref1

Browne, Judith, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Browne, Martin, ref1

Browne (née MacSherry), Nicki (Tara’s wife), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

amphetamine dealer, ref1, ref2

birth of her first son, Dorian, ref1, ref2

birth of her second son, Julian, ref1

on Deacon’s influence over Tara, ref1, ref2

death, ref1

early days of her relationship with Tara, ref1, ref2, ref3

engagement to Tara, ref1

financial allowance from Maureen Guinness, ref1
r /> first pregnancy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

infidelity, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

marital disintegration and divorce, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

marital strain, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

married life, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19

on Miguel, ref1

models for Vogue, ref1

on the Paris riots, ref1, ref2

permanently loses custody of her children to Oonagh, ref1, ref2, ref3

second pregnancy, ref1, ref2, ref3

settles in Marbella, ref1, ref2

and Tara’s affair with Amanda Lear, ref1, ref2, ref3

and Tara’s death, ref1, ref2, ref3

on Tara’s schooling, ref1, ref2

testimony to Tara, ref1, ref2

wedding, ref1, ref2, ref3

Browne, Olwen Verena, Lady Oranmore and Browne, ref1, ref2

Browne, Oonagh, Lady Oranmore and Browne (Tara’s mother), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

adopts Mexican twins, ref1

affair with Robert Kee, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

and Amanda Lear, ref1, ref2, ref3

attractiveness, ref1

and Beat the Devil (1953), ref1

birth, ref1

bond with Tara, ref1, ref2

and Brendan Behan, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

and the Bright Young People, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

character, ref1

closeness to niece Caroline, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

coming out, ref1

cruel side, ref1

and daughter Tessa’s death, ref1, ref2

dictatorial nature, ref1

dislike of boring people, ref1

drinking, ref1, ref2

and the Dublin Horse Show, ref1

family, ref1

first romance, ref1

fortieth birthday, ref1

friendship with Derek Lindsay, ref1, ref2

and Garech’s birth, ref1

and Gay’s marriage to Magsie, ref1

global family sailing trip, ref1

and Godard Lieberson, ref1

and her father’s death, ref1, ref2

home, Luggala Lodge, ref1, ref2

on homework, ref1

John Huston on, ref1

lack of social prejudice, ref1

loses custody of son Gay, ref1

and the Luggala fire, ref1, ref2, ref3

marriages, ref1

first, Philip Kindersley, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

second, Dom Browne, ref1, ref2, ref3

third, Miguel Ferreras, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25

Melissa North on, ref1, ref2, ref3

and Nicki Browne, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16

pregnant with fourth child, loses the baby, ref1, ref2

and Rabea Redpath, ref1

renowned hostess, ref1

takes Tara to see Psycho, ref1

favouritism towards Tara, ref1, ref2, ref3

fractures in her relationship with Tara, ref1

and Tara’s children, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

and Tara’s death, ref1, ref2

and Tara’s driving, ref1, ref2

and Tara’s tutors, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

and Tara’s twenty-first birthday, ref1, ref2, ref3

views Tara as her miracle baby, ref1, ref2

Browne, Patricia, ref1

Browne, the Honourable Tara

birth, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; christening, ref1, ref2, ref3; childhood, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; trust fund, ref1; and the end of his parents’ marriage, ref1; precocious nature, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9; lonely, melancholy nature, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; leads eccentric life with no limits set from early age, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; dislike of his stepmother, ref1, ref2; swearing, ref1, ref2; visits to Castle Mac Garrett, ref1, ref2; love of traditional Irish music, ref1, ref2; education, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11; childhood appearance, ref1; poetry, ref1; sense of humour, ref1; and the Luggala fire, ref1; ringleader, ref1; tutor, Deacon, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; love of classical music, ref1; and fashion, ref1, ref2, ref3; generosity, ref1, ref2, ref3; and his step-father Miguel, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15; ‘pocket money’, ref1; Italian holidays with Oonagh, ref1, ref2, ref3; passes Common Entrance exam, but refuses to attend Eton, ref1; drinking, ref1, ref2; and Brendan Behan, ref1, ref2, ref3; life in Paris, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11; smoker, ref1, ref2; teenage appearance, ref1, ref2, ref3; love of women, ref1, ref2, ref3; raffishness, ref1, ref2; love of pop music, ref1; tutor, Godfrey Carey, ref2; attends Lucy Lambton’s coming-out party, ref1, ref2; and Candida Betjeman, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; and brother Garech’s twenty-first birthday, ref1; and his mother’s Dublin Horse Show party, ref1; in Marbella, ref1; love of fast cars, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15; love of modern jazz, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; love of recreational drugs, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15; and Glen Kidston, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17; puberty, ref18; first girlfriend, Melissa North, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; fearlessness, ref1, ref2; love of speed boats, ref1; attends Dublin Horse Show, ref1; and Jacquetta Lampson, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; develops fracture in his relationship with Oonagh during Paris riots, ref1; life in Swinging London, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23; and Nicki Browne, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21; allowance, ref1, ref2; early car crashes, ref1, ref2; attends Dublin Horse Show, ref1; moves to Somerset, ref1; fatherhood, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9; friendship with Paul McCartney, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; gift for hospitality, ref1; and Brendan Behan’s death, ref1; takes part in competitive motor racing at Rathdrum, ref1; marital strain, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11; shyness, ref1; friendship with Brian Jones, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14; takes job as apprentice mechanic in the west Midlands, ref1, ref2; godfather to his mother’s adopted twins, ref1; and the birth of his second child, Julian, ref2; buys into Len Street Engineering, ref1, ref1, ref2, ref3; LSD use, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12; falls for Amanda Lear, ref1, ref2; AC Cobras, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10; and the rag trade, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; final Christmas, ref1; modelling work, ref1, ref2; twenty-first-birthday party, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; loses driving licence for speeding offence, ref1, ref2, ref3; restarts relationship with Amanda Lear, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; marital disintegration and divorce, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; ends relationship with Amanda Lear, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; begins to refer to his imminent death, ref1; makes new will, ref1, ref2; fling with Marianne Faithfull, ref1; develops sense of doom, ref1; romance with Suki Potier, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; gets driving licence back, ref1; final journey, fatal crash, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; burial at Luggala, ref1; death inspires John Lennon to write ‘A Day in the Life’, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; memorial service at St Paul’s Roman Catholic Church, ref1; friends’ memorials to, ref1, ref2; as spirit of the sixties, ref1, ref
2, ref3

Browne family, ref1

Brubeck, Dave, ref1, ref2

Bryanston, ref1, ref2

Brynner, Rock, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

Brynner, Yul, ref1, ref2, ref3

Buddicorn, Guinevere, ref1

Buddicorn, Jacintha, ref1

Burdon, Eric, ref1

Burma, ref1

Burnett, Al, ref1

Burnett, Bob, ref1

Burton, Richard, ref1

Butler, Joe, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Byrds, The, ref1

Byrne, Maura, ref1, ref2

Bystander magazine, ref1, ref2, ref3

Caine, Michael, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Cammell, Donald, ref1, ref2

Campbell, Gerard, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12

Campbell, Lady Jeanne, ref1

Capote, Truman, ref1, ref2

Carey, Godfrey, ref1, ref2, ref3

Carnaby Street, London, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

Carstairs, John Paddy, ref1

Castle Mac Garrett, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

Castro, Fidel, ref1

Cavallo, Bob, ref1

Cawley, James, ref1

Chamberlain, Neville, ref1

Chandler, Gene, ref1

Chapman, Colin, ref1

Charles, Ray, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Chartres Cathedral, ref1

Chassay, Tchaik, ref1, ref2

Checker, Chubby, ref1, ref2

Chelsea Set, ref1, ref2

Chieftains, ref1

Childers, Erskine, ref1

Christie, Julie, ref1

Churchill, Winston, ref1, ref2, ref3

Ciarán Mac Mathúna, ref1

Citkowitz, Israel, ref1, ref2

Citkowitz, Natalya, ref1

Claddagh Records, ref1, ref2

Clapton, Eric, ref1

Claridge’s, London, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

Clark, Jim, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Clarke, Margaret, ref1

Clay, Cassius, ref1

Coasters, The, ref1

Cochran, Eddie, ref1

Cockburn, Claud (James Helvik), ref1, ref2, ref3

Cocteau, Jean, ref1

Cohen, Sheila, ref1, ref2

Coltrane, John, ref1

Columbia Records, ref1

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