Easter Rising A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion

Name: Easter Rising A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion
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ISBN: 9780618918638

ISBN-10: 0618918639

ISBN-13: 9780618918638

Edition: 11th 2007

Authors: Michael Patrick MacDonald

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Michael Patrick MacDonalds memoir All Souls told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Irish South Boston. In his numerous speaking engagements ever since, MacDonald is frequently asked, "How did you get out?" Easter Rising is the searing answer to that question. Desperate to escape the "normal" route of violence and drugs that surrounds him, MacDonald finds his identity in the burgeoning punk rock movement. His forays into the Boston underground and New Yorks East Village pull him into the club scene vortex of Johnny Rotten, Mission of Burma, and the Clash. At nineteen MacDonald heads to Paris and then London. Running out of money, he…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Edition: 11th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Michael Patrick MacDonald helped launch Boston's successful gun-buyback program and is founder of the South Boston Vigil Group. He has won the American Book Award, a New England Literary Lights Award, and the Myers Center Outstanding Book Award administered by the Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America. His second book, the highly acclaimed memoir Easter Rising, was published in 2006, and will be available in paperback from Houghton Mifflin in March, 2008. He is currently writing the screenplay of All Souls for director Ron Shelton. MacDonald lives in Brooklyn.