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Ireland - from Bombs to Boom
出版Mainstream Publishing Company, Limited, 2005
主題Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, PublishersBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsHistory / Europe / IrelandHistory / Modern / 20th Century / GeneralPolitical Science / Peace
ISBN18459602549781845960254
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LXL1AAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Colours is more than just a memoir about the formative years of someone born in the epicenter of political and sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. McDonald time travels in two directions--first back to the dark days of Ulster's violent past; and second, he uses some of the key incidents of his boyhood and youth to compare the Ireland of then with the Ireland of the 21st century. It is a journey that takes him from the GPO in Dublin, a revered site in the history of Irish Republicanism where the 1916 Easter Rising was launched, to the sex shops and the swinging parties of post-modern hedonistic Dublin. Filled with football thugs, terrorists, madams, paedophile priests, abuse survivors, drug dealers, comic writers, and modern-day martyrs, Colours exposes Ireland in all its complexity and diversity, as seen through the eyes of a someone who has experienced firsthand an island and a nation undergoing revolutionary changes.