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notpropaganda73
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came across him from the Second Captains podcast actually, he had like an hour and a half convo with Ken Early on the book the other week which was a brilliant listen and I picked it up after that there's plenty of parallels with the world today as well, though I know some people really don't like when you suggest that
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Jock
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Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on
the Crown Good read charting the build up and aftermath of the Brighton Bombing. |
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The Huntacha
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Got a Kindle for Christmas. The search function on the Kindle store is absolutely brutal to use. Unless you type in the book you specifically want, then browsing is a waste of time.
Will use e-books from the library instead.
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Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic."
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Cabs88
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Borrowbox is an excellent app in fairness. Read days and nights in the GAA over Christmas, really enjoyed that. Reading “Six” at the moment. Group of thirty something friends partake in a murder and the fall out from it
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Beidh lá eile ag an bPaorach
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razzmatazaz
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The Dirty War by Martin Dillon
Easy to dip in and out of this one as each chapter covers a different aspect of The Troubles, though there are a few criticisms. I'm reading the print version of this and the writing is so small it gives me migraines. Second of all, Dillon's biases permeate the entire book. Everything is written through the prism of justifying every decision the British government and army made in Northern Ireland as being in good faith, even when that was obviously not the case. He also goes over the top in his condemnation of the IRA while either skimming over or ignoring the context of RUC discrimination, collusion, loyalist paramilitary atrocities etc. As I near the completion of the book, something he wrote about the journalist Martin O'Hagan has aged particularly badly [O'Hagan was murdered after the book was published]. I would prefer Anne Cadwallader's Lethal Allies, a book that holds the British state to full account with an unvarnished telling of what happened in Northern Ireland.
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Green Cockade
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Dillon has written better books. “Political Murder in Northern Ireland”, which he co-authored with Denis Lehane, was a seminal work and one of the first to expose what was actually happening in the early years of the “ Troubles.” In later years “Shankill Butchers”, which was about the most vicious of the loyalist gangs of serial killers operating in the 70s, made his name and was a best seller. “ The Trigger Men”, whose subject was the most profilic hitmen in the various organisations, wasn’t bad either. “Lethal Allies” is an outstanding and accurate piece of work by Anne Cadwallader, extremely well researched.
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JUICEBOMB
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The miracle of castle di sangro by Joe mc ginniss
I’m only a few chapters in and I know a good few on here have read the book but it really is excellently written.mc ginniss is a fine writer and really sets the tone in the opening chapters. Among the thugs by bill buford Another one that many on here have completed.it didn’t thrill me as much as I was expecting.some chapters like the European trips had me glued to the pages but others lost me,and I found myself breeze through the pages.buford rambles on a little for me but still a good read.
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Cabra Hoop
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" BFC always gives me a laugh........ "
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Flanno7hi
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Just finished Stefano Bloch's Going All City. Found it a very interesting read about his life as a graffiti artist in LA and his difficult upbringing. Was timely at the moment with that tower in LA being worldwide news.
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MC Hammered
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The Dark Heart of Italy is also an enjoyable football/ politics book
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El Puto Amo
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Cabra Hoop
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" BFC always gives me a laugh........ "
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MC Hammered
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Yeah funny enough that chapter stood out to me too. Crazy stuff
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razzmatazaz
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Five Families by Selwyn Raab is a great book about the American mafia.
One of the chapters is about Joseph Massino, the first mob boss to cooperate in 2004. Massino was the guy who masterminded the three capos murder immortalised in a gruescome scene in the movie Donnie Brasco. Massino died in September. After he died it finally came out that he was living under the assumed name "Ralph Rogers" in Cleveland. During a trip to the city's casino in the late 2010s, Massino met someone who insisted that he recognised him. Massino, a morbidly obese and obviously Italian-American New Yorker, insisted the person was mistaken and he was in fact Ralph Rogers. Another chapter is about Vincent Gigante, boss of the Genovese Crime Family, who was part inspiration for Junior Soprano's crazy act in The Sopranos. Gigante used to walk around Greenwich Village in a bathrobe talking to himself in a bid to fool the FBI into thinking he was senile. Like Tony Sirico [Paulie Walnuts in The Sopranos], he had a brother who was a priest. Nothing sums up the downfall of the mob in America better than Joey Merlino, who despite being reputed to be the boss of the Philadelphia Crime Family, posts videos on YouTube, which is usually the preserve of rats like Sammy Gravano and Michael Franzese, the latter of whom did a speaking engagement in Belfast recently. They usually have guests on every episode. The one with Ric Flair is one of the most random things I've ever seen.
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razzmatazaz
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Making Sense of the Troubles by David McKittrick [author of Lost Lives] and David McVea for sale at just 1 euro on Kindle at the moment. I got it yesterday.
Currently reading A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Klebold. A real page-turner this wan. Written by the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the school shooters in the Columbine massacre. Three chapters in, it explains her thought processes as she came to terms with the fact her son was a mass murderer and the guilt and remorse she felt as she balanced mourning her son while acknowledging the mass hurt he caused others in her community. A point to note - she didn't profit from this book and works in advocacy. Empathetically told and without a hint of exploitation. An interesting companion piece to Columbine by David Cullen.
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