Books you've read or are reading

Pirates, Punks & Politics by Nick Davidson. Great, great book. Captures what I felt first time I set foot in the Millerntor perfectly.

 

James * Patterson. Free oot ae the library. Nae airs and graces me. Thank you South Lanarkshire Council.

 

Neuromancer at the moment.

 

A Proper player: The career of John Sheridan.

 

Four or five linguistics books on dialects of Irish, as ever.

 

Just now finished Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan. Thoroughly enjoyed, I'll take some of his expressions to the grave.

Think 'Neck like a jockey's bollocks' was my favourite.

 

Great read.

"I left out County Tyrone, for he was a kind old fellow."

 

Rotha Mór an tSaoil by Micí Mac Gabhann

 

Ní raibh a fhios agamsa go bhfuil an Ghaeilge agatsa!

 

And civility costs nothing!

I should probably go back and re-read the first 50/60 pages, suppose I didn't take much in from them caus' it took me a while to get to grips with the dialect or Irish way of writing if you like. The slang can be bad enough now never mind the 1930's.

Aswell, I expected him to get it a lot worse off the screws and inmates. His age I suppose but there didn't seem to be the same amount of vitriol towards Ireland in general as I would have expected in English prisons from the 60's/70's onwards.

Right enough I couldn't tell you if there was any support in Britain for the Irish struggle all the way back then so perhaps the media hadn't yet found it necessary to go all out in their propoganda to criminalize and dehumanize the Irish in the eyes of ordinary brits.

Must say it's not the book to read when your trying to cut down on the cigs, someone's got snout on every page :smiley-laughing002:

 

It's twenty years since I read it myself but remember enjoying it immensely.

 

Tá mé ag refreshing mo theanga. Níl mé líofa.
Fós.

 

Cá h-áit a bhfuil tú ann i dTír Chonaill?

 

Finished a re read of Brian Feeney's Sinn Fein A Hundred Turbulent Years. Well worth a read.

 

Tá mé ina gcónaí i na Cealla Beaga anois roimhe seo Leitir Ceanainn.

 

Iontach. An raibh tú i nGleann Cholm Chille riamh don Ghaeilge ann?

 

Not a bad story, but totally over-rated. It's interesting having a story with a Western outlook in Saudi Arabia (with a Palestinian main character, no less), but it didn't really capture my imagination.

 

Finished a re read of Diarmid Ferriter's The Transformation of Ireland. One of the aspects I like about the book is the attention he gives to the lives and experiences of various groups (working class, poor, women, children) who usually don't feature in these kinds of general overview history books.