Author: MacDonald, Michael Patrick
Title: Easter Rising : An Irish American Coming Up from Under
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2006. First printing. Hardcover. 248pp. 22 cm. Very good condition/good d.j. (closed tear taped), Signed by the author Summary This narrative of reinvention begins with the young MacDonald's first forays outside the soul-crushing walls of Southie's Old Colony housing project. In greater Boston and eventually New York's East Village, he becomes part of the club scene, providing a 1980s social history and a powerful glimpse of what punk music was for him: a lifesaving form of subversion avery good d.j.nd self-education. Yet family tragedies eventually draw him home again, to a devastating breakdown induced by trauma and guilt. He meets his father for the first time, as a corpse. Finally, two trips to Ireland, the first as an alienated young man, the second with his extraordinary "Ma," are healing journeys unlike any other in Irish-American literature.--From publisher description.

Keywords: Mcdonald Family; Irish Americans--Massachusetts--Boston--Biography; Irish American Families--Massachusetts--Boston; South Boston (Boston, Mass. )--Biography; Boston (Mass. )--Biography; South Boston (Boston, Mass. )--Social Life and Customs