When the Beatles strolled into the bar of Dublin's Groome's Hotel, following their sell-out shows at the Adelphi in November 1963, it wasn't just drinking Guinness that was on their minds.
Instead, it was the prospect of meeting the Dublin girls that had enticed them to hide in the back of a laundry van, safe from crazed fans, and travel the short distance from the nearby Gresham Hotel.
A large party of actors and actresses from the musical Carrie, which was on down the road at the Olympia, were already in the bar when the Beatles arrived. An unexpected success at the Dublin Theatre Festival, the musical was written by Wesley Burrowes, who would later become chief scriptwriter for both The Riordans and Glenroe.
"One thing I remember very well was that we had a wee girl with us in Carrie who used to be in The Riordans as well," Burrowes told me in an interview for my book The Beatles Irish Concerts.
"George Harrison came over to her and asked her would she like to dance. She told him to 'shag off'. Afterwards, when she realised who it was and what she had just turned down, she was very mortified."
That it was Harrison -- the 'quiet Beatle' -- and not the precocious Lennon or the socially-attuned McCartney who made the running that night was no surprise. Although only 20, he had already developed a reputation as the group's Lothario.
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