Great Books

[sylvo]

[QUOTE=green goblin]

Veering off on a tangent, an early teenage fave of mine was Tom Barry's "Guerilla Days in Ireland". The 1970's version had a great cover,



Went to Kilmicheal a few years ago when down in Cork on a pilgramige due to reading ''Guerilla days in Ireland'' fantastic monument there to what happened, and also went to see his house in Roscarbery.
Another fave from my early Irish history reading is Dan Breens ''my fight for Irish freedom'', (tends to have been written at a hundred miles an hour by him, plus he did tend to add numbers to the causlty list that got on the wrong side of him).

[Junior]

On this note, try Irvine Welsh out for size. Trainspotting was a nightmare to get used to at the beginning. Ecstacy and Filth are reads you won't put down till the end though. Acid House short stories are hialrious.

Went through a bit of a phase of reading Welsh just after Trainspotting came out on the big screen.

Marabou Stork nightmares was my favourite - he was definitely on something whilst writing that!!

[Duncan Gardner]

I like that book. Shows how ruthless you have to be to succeed

Disagree. O'Leary didn't and doesn't have to be so outrageously rude to dominate his business. How exactly does parroting inanities like "Which part of **** off don't you understand" to any listening hacks, demonstrate anything other than shock for its own sake?

[strangeirish]

DeValera by Tim Pat Coogan. Some very interesting stuff about aul Dev and his book on Collins was pretty good also, albeit a tad biased.

[piratemousey]

yes i agree great book by tim pat there,.
of course he has a certain dislike for the man, but why wouldnt he?