TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patrick, Michael,
AU  - Donald, Mac,
TI  - Easter rising : : An Irish American coming up from under
SN  - 9780618918638 (pbk)
U1  - 305.89162073074461 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin, 
KW  - MacDonald, Michael Patrick -- Childhood and youth
KW  - McDonald family. MacDonald,
KW  - Michael Patrick
N2  - 	
MacDonald's first book told of the loss of the author's four siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Boston's Irish-American ghetto. The question "How did you get out?" has haunted him ever since. 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 and 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.
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