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I'm going a tad off thread I know but wasn't there also a group in the mid 80s near Burtonport who used to dress and live as victorians? I remember them being interviewed by Gaybo on the LL show. Anybody remember them?
I went to Roundstone in 1983. I was eating fish and chips at gurteen bay when suddenly, this group of women all dressed in black ran into the sea screaming. I wondered at the time were they related to the screamers.
My friend was in New Zealand in the late seventies. He went to a festival wherepeople were encouraged to scream their anger and outrage from their souls. Remembering a football team in Cavan which had inflicted misery upon him in the early seventies as a pupil, he kept screaming Ardcath Ardcath.
Beautiful memories..just beautiful.
Re the Atlantis crowd.
They also believe in phylical expression in other words if you are mad at someone its
good to hit them and get it out of your system.
They even use manipulation to encourage people to physically fight with each other as a
form of therapy.
I don't know how anyone got they idea they were feminist. P.S Jenny James also believed
people shouldnt waste their times reading books escept her own of course.
Two of them ended up in Baltimore and are also unpopular with their neighbours there.
On the other hand re: Mary Kelly I am happy to report she is well over them at this point
and indeed has made many more friends in recent years than anyone she may have fallen
out with .
Do you want to defy pigeon holes and at the
same time avoid designer synicism Laugh with
rage!
On a similar topic, there was also a group of hippies who used to live near county
Dublin in the late 60s/early seventies. I can't remember much about them except
one of them was a friend of Jeff Nuttall, the hippie author.
That would be the South Dublin designer-clad trendies, most of whom own second homes in Roundstone. It was probably the fish and chips that set them off "And he was like OMIGOD.....eating this awful STUFF.....with, like, y'knew, this red sauce?? And additives??.....It was so, like....TOTALLY scary .....??"
As for "The Screamers" in the 1970s. No, indeed we were far from tolerant back then. There was the usual fear of women living unregulated lives. Accusations of every kind were hurled at them. Janov's Primal Scream therapy, espoused by Lennon and others, eventually went mainstream and suburban, like Yoga (which in my youth was considered yet another hippie, Godless caper). So respectability caught up with the screamers. Finding your Inner Child, communing with nature, alternative therapies. They all eventually became the height of respectable fashion.
The "Screamers" did nothing wrong. They just did it first.
Actually, there was a lot wrong with the Screamers. I was there in 1976 and I realised very quickly that it was a cult. There was a lot of intimidation and brainwashing techniques were used. Long confrontational groups, sometimes lasting days, where people were mentally and physically abused werre common. One was required to think in the 'right' way which was basically whatever Jenny James the cult leader thought was right. I was often reminded of Jonestown the infamous cult in America where everyone committed suicide. it is no surprise to me that they moved to South America where it was more difficult to escape. Mind you I learnt a lot about mind-control which has been very useful in my life since. I would like to get in touch with anyone who was there at the time.
Sure you're not getting mixed up with the Bob Quinn film Budawanny which has a similar plot?I remember a naked woman was pulled from the Sea by local fishermen off their island after she fled from captivity there...
I'm sure they still tell stories about that 'catch' anyway!
"The rich always betray the poor"- Henry Joy McCracken
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