Before the Summer of Love: Emmett Grogan's Dublin Adventure
28 January - 30 minsSERIES 4, EPISODE 1.
Welcome back to a new series. Emmett Grogan was one of the defining figures of American counterculture in the 1960s. Though his name is almost completely unknown in Ireland, the author of Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps is a man for whom Bob Dylan dedicated an album, and who was described by Abbie Hoffman (who he distrusted greatly) as "the hippie warrior par excellence." Yet before the Summer of Love took San Francisco, Grogan was in Dublin in the early 1960s. His accounts of the city are fascinating, from Neary's to Guinness, but how much of it is true?
You can read his account here: https://stealthiswiki.com/library/emmett-grogan-ringolevio
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