What book are you reading?

[philipchevron]

IRELAND'S NATIONAL THEATERS: POLITICAL PERFORMANCE AND THE ORIGINS OF THE IRISH DRAMATIC MOVEMENT Mary Trotter

[Niall]

the complete works of edgar allan poe

[paddyboy]

just started reading Confessions of an Irish Rebel by Brendan Behan. Pretty fucking good so far

[soulfinger]

Margrave Of The Marshes - John Peel

S'good.

[philipchevron]

REVOLUTIONARY REFUGEES - GERMAN SOCIALISM IN BRITAIN, 1840 - 1860 - Christine Lattek (who is a Medusan)

[cougar]

Usually dont read this kinda thing but: The Autobiography of Donovan - talk about being modest..........joke

David Marr - Vietnamese Tradition on Trial: 1920 - 1945

[neilinseattle]

"Active Liberty" -- Justice Stephen Breyer

Wish Congress would have asked Alito what he thought of Breyer's thesis, or better yet, ask him to compare and contrast it with Scalia's philosophy. Might have been more revealing than trying to get him to answer direct questions about Roe that he had no intention of answering.

[Sean]

The Curse of Lono, by Hunter S. Thompson. I also have Fear and Loathing in America, also by HST, going as my bathroom reading.

[Caukill]

my dad was good mates with nicholas and gary, and was in fact present on most of them occasions.
the first bit made me want to be sick on the book then burn it, the bit about nicking the tickets from the tout as if it was a big fucking deal but that was probably to please to publishers, it mentions quite a few people I have met and dad knows most if not all of them, when the scousers were ouring europe it was like the crusades apparently, with slightly less fatalities and no religous context.

think this reply was re. the 'Boys from the Mersey' - have read a lot of football books but this one struck a chord with me as i caught the tail of end this era when i started going to the footie. Hats off to yer dad if he was living the life - it was one of the last big hurrahs before the authorities twigged to it.

[St.Peter]

Re Boys from the mersey .In the Robert Elms book The Way We Wore,he stated that the sportswear fashion that began in the eighties( Fila,Kappa,Slazenger etc) was started by scallies who brought back bundles of knocked off gear from their travels in Europe with the reds.Could that be right inmy..?Yer Dad will know.Cheers inmy...;good to hear from you-keep it up!

[Mick Molloy]

REVOLUTIONARY REFUGEES - GERMAN SOCIALISM IN BRITAIN, 1840 - 1860 - Christine Lattek (who is a Medusan)

Just wondering what that is about. I always thought socialism started much later

[Guest]

yer, according to my dad liverpool pioneered several fashion movements throughout the ages, not just cause of what you said but also cause the albert dock was the most important port in england so sailors would be going from liverpool to america and that and bringing back different clothes, and not just clothes words and music and stuff, like the blues, I think the first english people to hear that were scouse sailors.
and it worked both ways I suppose, maybe there's yanks out there somewhere who use liverpool slang that'd be funny to hear.

[Lade]

Barbara Cole - The Elite, The Rhodesian SAS.
I just started on this book. So far it looks like an interesting book for those who have an interest in the history of this country.
Other books that are recomendable on this subject is Fireforce by Chris Cocks and Selous Scouts by Ron Reid Daly.

[Eric V]

Just wondering what that is about. I always thought socialism started much later

The Communist Manifesto was published in 1848. The 1840s were when socialist ideas really started to solidify and gain broad exposure throughout Europe. A group in England called the Communist League commissioned the Communist Manifesto, and they were started as an organization of "radical" German emigrees.

Incidentally, red is the color of choice of Communist and Socialist groups, and May Day the holiday, because of Socialist history in, .......of all places, the United States. Yup, we're to blame for providing the holiday and color motiff for our Cold War enemies. The red of the various flags originates from the blood of american workers in Chicago in 1886.

[Paddy Rolling Clone]

Yeats: The Man & The Masks - Richard Ellmann