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eBook, 2008
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eBook, 2008
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In All souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty and gangsterism of Irish South Boston. In Easter Rising he tells the story of how he got out. Desperate to avoid the "normal life" of Southie, Michael reinvents himself in the burgeoning punk rock movement and the thrilling vortex of Johnny Rotten, Mission of Burma, and the Clash. At nineteen MacDonald escapes further, to Paris and then London. Out of money, he contacts his Irish immigrant grandfather - who offers a loan, but only if Michael will visit Ireland. It is this reluctant journey "home" that offers MacDonald a chance at reconciliation - with his heritage, his neighborhood and has family - and a way forward.
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