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There was just a general assumption: ' Well look, you're not academic ­– this isn't for you. "But Dublin in the 1980s was a different time – even third level graduates were unemployed or working at low-level stuff. I wouldn't have gotten very far." Still, emigrating was a bold move for a 16-year-old.
"Sure, I got mugged and beaten up and all the rest of it, but the other side was that it was a phenomenal era in New York City's history," enthuses Geary, who still owns a bar in Manhattan with the chucklesomely Irish name, Scratcher.
"So, to kind of get to brush up against that in a small way, I really feel very fortunate to have shown up when I did." Best of all, it means Geary will have no shortage of colourful stories to draw upon for his now eagerly anticipated future works.
"It was undiagnosed; in those days, no-one knew what dyslexia was.
In fact, I didn't even find out until years later while I was in the States.
"I find that very troubling in the world." Most recently seen on screen in Billy O' Brien's excellent horror/thriller I Am Not A Serial Killer (where he played opposite his wife), Geary left school at 16 with no qualifications before emigrating to New York.
Second, they do the positive work of setting your eyes on Christ and his completed work in your life.
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