Vintage Nell: The Mccafferty Reader - Couverture souple

McCafferty, Nell

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1843510685 ISBN 13 : 9781843510680

Editeur : The Lilliput Press Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

Feminist, socialist, trenchant social commentator, Nell has seen and lived it all. From the early days of the civil rights movement and the revolutionary fervour of Free Derry to the bitter conflict at the Garvaghy Road and the Siege of Sarajevo, she has been both a participant in and a witness to history in the making. Writing about it all in her own way, and as nobody else ever could, the force of her passionate pen has won her a place as one of Ireland’s best-loved journalists. Here are moving accounts of the numbed aftermath of Bloody Sunday; of the lonely death of Ann Lovett in 1984 and of the shock of the Kerry Babies case a year later. And in excerpts from her acclaimed ‘In the Eyes of the Law’ series we meet Maoists, Hare Krishna monks, wife-beaters and ‘adult consenting males’ confronting the Dublin District Courts. Taken from sources ranging from The Irish Times, Irish Press and Sunday Tribune, to Hot Press, Kerry’s Eye and Magill, Vintage Nell harvests the strange fruits of Irish social and cultural life from the seventies to the twenty-first century. It features classic accounts of the Pope’s Visit in 1979 and of the ‘dirty protest’ of women prisoners in Armagh Prison – and sympathetic, raw, incisive cameo-portraits of Ian Paisley, Martin McGuinness, Raymond Gilmour, Bishop Casey, Mary Robinson, Winnie Mandela, Mo Mowlam and others. From the serious – ‘Reservoir Prods’, ‘Chernobyl’ and ‘The Life and Death of Mary Norris’ – to the witty and satiric – ‘Silent Night’, ‘Golden Balls’ and ‘Jukebox’ (on Elvis) – Vintage Nell concludes with a poignant description of her mother Lily’s death in December 2004, and showcases the best work of this prodigiously talented writer.

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À propos de l'auteur

ELGY GILLESPIE is author of The Liberties of Dublin (1974) and The Rough Guide to San Francisco Restaurants (2004), and editor of Changing the Times (2003).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Lilliput Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843510685
• ISBN 13: 9781843510680
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Gillespie Elgy
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible