The Liz Nugent books are all good
56 days is good I’d say if that’s your thing.
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I’ve started 56 Days on the drive home. So far so good.
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So day 1?
It jumps back from Day 56 so day 56 and some of day 1
Found it an entertaining read
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Darktown by Thomas Mullen would make your blood boil but it’s very good.
Cc @TheUlteriorMotive
Also Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer.
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I’m enjoying 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard as recommended by @backinatracksuit
A crime mystery set in early lockdown Dublin.
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“Wake Up” Piers Morgan, I read it in one go last weekend, brilliant.
First half better than second half but enjoyed it nonetheless
A worthy book no doubt
Not sure too many 15 year old lads will buy it, unless some kind of tie in with schools or it’s aimed more at parents
I am about three quarters through James Fearnley’s book on the Pogues, as recommended here.
A great read so far. The description of MacGowan is pretty much as expected. His description of Shane having a piss was particularly vivid.
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I just finished “Another Bloody Love Letter” - the follow up book by war correspondent Antony Lloyd to his super book about Bosnia etc “My war gone by, I love it so”
Both are super reads for anyone interested in non-fiction like that. His writing style is hugely engaging and he really captures some of mundane tragedy of the various war zones he wrote from.
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Just finished this. Good owl read though hard to keep track of all the names. Author nor a fan of Gorby and quite damning of him. Yeltsin was a great bucko for the drink, as we know.
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Lloyd is a great writer
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Please elaborate on why.
I would have had limited knowledge of the period
General public opinion changed relatively quickly, there was a national day of mourning after Bloody Sunday but none after Dublin/Monaghan bombings
once IRA started killing civilians (5 cleaners and a priest were killed in Aldershot Bomb) a lot of support/potential support left.A few Gardai were also killed.
Once the war was brought “south” would seem a lot if people in the Republic/free state/down there lost all interest.
Suppose civil war was still a relatively recent thing for families and no one wanted any more killings of family/friends /neighbours.
The more extreme republican parties didn’t make any real impact at election time (hunger strike of 81 not covered in book) could argue FF was picking up the nationalist vote,I was littler surprised at that.
A lot if northerners were genuinely dismayed at lack of interest in their plight (after early interest) from south of the border, I can understand that feeling
I’m not really doing the book justice but would recommend if anyone looking to learn more about that period
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I started a great one this evening.
I’ll put pen to paper again soon.
Official Ireland turned their back on their own country men. Your RTE types, your media types, your Bonos and Geldofs, your politicians… Tubridy during the pandemic talking about reclaiming the tricolour, it had been hijacked by nationalists up north, but we can be proud of it again… That’s what northerners have been up against for decades on this island.
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What was the story with the US during the period?
Nixon, Ford, Carter, Regan?
Surely the 26 counties state could have done more to get the Irish lobby there on side? It seemed to be mainly left to the likes of Hume with a few senators.