A new Irish-themed book that's able-bodied account a look. "Mickey Slabdabber" has some important things to say about Irish amusing and political history, besides accepting a active and active claimed memoir. In particular, the catastrophe absolutely apparitional me. It shows that Irish history is still an accessible anguish for abounding humans and their families, and not just "unimportant being from the past". Entertaining and worthwhile.
Sydney,Australia -- This year is of added acceptation to Irish-descended folk about the world, wherever they may live. The United States and Canada play host to the better number, but the adopted home of the columnist of this book, abroad Australia, is aswell the home of millions proudly claiming Irish ancestors.
For all of these Gaels, in 2006 the accepted airy bonhomie and animated anniversary of St Patrick's Day has been followed by austere absorption on the 90th celebration of the Dublin Easter Uprising of 1916. The adverse contest of that time accompany to apperception the abhorrent amount Ireland had to pay to accretion its abandon afterwards centuries of oppression.
unimportant being from the past Mickey Slabdabber, a Limerick Odyssey Memoirs of a Loose Canon I acquainted there was a acceptable chat to be put in, that I acquainted a little defective in Frank's work I hardly dared buzz it - De Valera, Mama? What had he to do with this? Mickey Slabdabber, a Limerick Odyssey Even today there abide aching capacity both amid and aural the North and the South of the aces "emerald isle", and they blister abounding an alone psyche. So it's applicable that a book afresh appear should reflect both the sad and blithesome aspects of what it agency to be Irish.
"Mickey Slabdabber, a Limerick Odyssey" has been declared by the "Limerick Leader" bi-weekly as "an adventure of fun". Yet the Rev. Dr Stuart Barton Babbage (the ninety-years adolescent columnist of " Memoirs of a Loose Canon") describes it as "heart wrenching" as able-bodied as affection warming, and "compulsive reading".
Simply put, the book is the accurate adventure of a adolescent boy growing from bearing appear adulthood in Limerick amid 1935 and 1953, with a fair aggregate of after ascertainment befuddled in. This of advance brings to apperception Frank McCourt and Angela's Ashes. Indeed the two books allotment a accord of accepted ground, and even the aforementioned real-life characters on a few occasions.
For McCourt admirers it may aswell be arresting to agenda that the Mickey Slabdabber author, Michael Quinlan, even briefly swapped allocution of Limerick with Frank McCourt if the closing was on a book bout in Sydney in May 2000. But their perspectives are by no agency identical. Though he praises Angela's Ashes as "a borsch of a book" Mr Quinlan aswell says diplomatically "I acquainted there was a acceptable chat to be put in, that I acquainted a little defective in Frank's work".
There are in actuality both similarities in accountable amount in this adventures and some arresting differences. For instance adolescent Michael Quinlan's father, a man accustomed a abhorrent secret, was aswell an alcoholic like McCourt senior. Unlike the closing though, he was no ne'er-do-well but captivated down a accomplished tradesman's job until his death. The mothers are actual different, this one accepting not alone added able in the face of abjection but aswell mentally able and insightful. Their ancient son's development about was afflicted both by a crippling falter and abstruse alien circumstances.
The closing acquired from the family's abiding captivation in the Irish ability struggle, and a after breach amid diehard IRA supporters and followers of Michael Collins. It's absurd to apprehend a band like "I hardly dared buzz it - De Valera, Mama? What had he to do with this?" after activity abutting to the raw currents of Irish history.
While McCourt has been accused of trivialising Irish politics, actuality no such accusation could be made. For the concealed duke of the IRA distorts adolescent Michael's adolescence and leads to the final affecting appeal for advice and adaptation that closes the book.
"Mickey Slabdabber" is by no agency just a austere or political book though. There is aswell art & enchantment, music, theatre & a acceptable accord of humour - not to discount the odd "bubble of glee"- in this accurate adventure of a Vizes Field lane boy who wants to be a painter. And for lovers of the offbeat there are even three sets of amusing vampire misapprehensions. The endure is not so hasty on absorption - afterwards all Dracula columnist Bram Stoker himself was Irish.
The columnist of "Mickey Slabdabber", Michael Quinlan, migrated to Australia in 1962. He is now a seventy-year old man who paints and writes in the Inner West of Sydney. His paintings cover a alternation of oils of the Limerick of his youth.
"Mickey Slabdabber, a Limerick Odyssey" by Michael Quinlan.
(Lulu Press. ISBN: 1411668871).
Availability: Available now from Amazon.com and added online bookstores, or may be ordered atlocal bookstores. Also accessible as either a print- on- appeal (POD) album or an bargain e-book from www.lulu.com/ebsi. (Lulu is now the world's fastest-growing provider of print-on-demand books)
Contact information: email Mr Quinlan's agent, Bruce Preston:
Or address to PO Box 1086, Strawberry Hills NSW 2012 Australia.
Photo of Michael Quinlan & book awning angel accessible on request.
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