Terence MacSwiney
- 314 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Using newly-released archive material, Dave Hannigan has pieced together a gripping, dramatic, and poignant account of one man's courageous stand against the might of an empire.
Dave Hannigan Books
Dave Hannigan is a sports columnist for The Sunday Tribune, the Evening Echo and New York’s Irish Echo. He is the author of three previous books and also an adjunct professor of history at Suffolk County Community College on Long Island.
Between defeat by Trevor Berbick in December 1981 and lighting the Olympic flame in July 1996, Ali spent 15 bizarre years traversing the globe. Sometimes hilarious, often terribly poignant, this book chronicles Ali preaching Islam, causing havoc and touching lives from Beijing to Birmingham, Detroit to Damascus, Khartoum to the Khyber Pass.
From epic victories to crushing defeats, Boy Wonder is a poignant comic memoir about fathers and sons, sport, and the rites of passage that shape every childhood.
Barbed Wire University
- 232 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Barbed Wire University tells the extraordinary tale of Winston Churchill's internment of some of the most gifted Jewish refugee writers, professors, artists and painters of their generation in a camp on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea. These were men who had fled Hitler's Germany, found refuge in Britain and then in the hysteria of 1940 were held in captivity as a perceived security threat. They turned the camp--Camp Hutchinson--into a school, concert hall and artistic community. This is a forgotten corner of World War II and the way these men constructed a Bohemian idyll in the middle of the Irish Sea, their freedom taken from them, is an extraordinary tale of grit and creativity.