To all those that have been asking I can now confirm that my book Against The Wind: Memoir of a Dissident Dubliner is now listed on www.amazon.com in Australia, USA, UK and EU. It can be downloaded as an e-book with Kindle or ordered as a print book ( paperback) with an option of express mail or normal postal delivery. Copies will be available in leading Australian bookstores in plenty of time for Christmas.
Books with similar flavour!
While this blog has been created to promote my memoir Against the Wind, it is also a site to allow me to publicise and comment on books and writing with similar themes. News has it that the first book to be banned in Ireland (1929) by the new “independent” Free State government, Liam O’Flaherty’s, The House of Gold has been published for the first time in 80 years. In a new introduction, writer and journalist, Tomas Mac Siomoin, comments that the emerging Free State was run by an ” oppressive native gombeen ascendancy , buttressed by the Catholic church”.
Another book; Deported: The Story of Jimmy Gralton, by Des Guckian, tells of the victimisation and the first and only ‘official’ deportation by the state (1933) of an Irish dissident and activist. In August, renowned film director, Ken Loach, began filming Gralton’s story in County Leitrim. A cousin Paul Gralton said the story is relevant to the Ireland of today and “is a story that needs to be told”.
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Why write a memoir?
The best answer to the above question I have found in the following quotation from Thomas Larson:
” The self’s new acumen via the memoir possesses a political mandate as well. Such a form asks me to write ( or make graphic stories, videos, oral histories, one-person stage shows) about how recollecting my experience nurtures my individuality and works against a society that demands I kowtow to my social group, my ethnic identity, and my corporate warden be it Pfizer or Pepsi.”
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About AGAINST THE WIND…
Here is the back cover blurb for AGAINST THE WIND:
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Book Announcement !
This first post is to garner publicity for the forthcoming publication of my memoir as illustrated below.
Cover of “Against The Wind”
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Being Bookish 