Brianna Parkins: Like many others, I have turned down creative jobs because I can’t afford to be poor

Brianna Parkins - The Irish Times - 21/02
The main reason working-class often people find themselves locked out of entertainment industry roles is poor or no pay for early-career creatives

One of the hardest things about living in Australia is not being able to reach the gorgeous cache of Irish phrases in daily life to explain exactly what I mean. As George Bernard Shaw said about the Brits and the Yanks, we too are “two countries separated by a common language”. This is because in both our cases we took the language foisted on us by colonisation and renovated it into our much more improved local dialects. The only problem is there are no direct translations for phrases like “YEEEOOOWWW”.

A guttural rip from the back of the throat often heard three pints deep in appreciation of a particularly good sports game or off the back of a tin whistle solo in a trad session. Interpreting it into stodgy dictionary words takes all the good out of it. It’s an involuntary feeling of joy that seems to burst up ...
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