This interview with Gabriel Byrne, which took place in Bel Air, Hollywood, was one of my earliest major interviews. I had never met Gabriel, but we connected in an instant, partly becuase we both are Dublin working class, and each had been tradesmen. But also, as is obvious from the exchange, we both were prone to soul searching. Also, the more I learned about Gabriel's decidedly shadowed and fascinating psyche, the more I wanted to know. That's why I was so pleased when afterwards he described our more than two-hour chat as 'the first totally honest, soul searching interview" he ever did. It still stands up as true more than thirty years later. It is Byrne in a way 'in treatment' with me. He never again gave an interview like this, even the second time we sat down to talk. That will be the second in this two-part podcast based on my eBook Gabriel Byrne: The Joe Jackson Interviews Plus