Frank Carson is buried in Milltown Cemetery in Belfast. <\/p>\n
He had joked more than once that the words inscribed on his headstone should be “Frank Carson, Rest in Peace.” And underneath, “Quiet, isn’t it?”<\/p>\n
Dan Gordon, who wrote and performed his acclaimed one man show ‘Frank Carson – A Rebel Without a Pause’, said Carson has earned the plaque. <\/p>\n
“Frank Carson was quintessentially Belfast. He was simultaneously soft, hard, joyous, exuberant, charitable, loyal, thoughtful and driven,” Gordon said.<\/p>\n
“A cornerstone of comedy for 50 years. His voice and presence were unmistakable and he was a determined pioneer in local broadcasting,” he said.<\/p>\n
Chris Spurr, chairman of the Ulster History Circle, said the organisation is “delighted to commemorate this cracker of a comedian with a blue plaque at the former school he attended”. <\/p>\n
“Any celebration’s a great celebration, especially in these troubled times. But there’s always trouble times and I think we all just need to look forward and find ways to make ourselves happy,” Tony Carson added.<\/p>\n
“I think that’s what my dad did. He had that innate spirit in him that always looked for the happy notes that there are out there. <\/p>\n
He’d always say: ‘that was yesterday, look forward to today and tomorrow’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank Carson is buried in Milltown Cemetery in Belfast. He had joked more than once that the words…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-825906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}