Lighting candles : a paramilitary's war with death, drugs and demons
Leslie, David2014
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When Manny McDonnell was 12 he awoke to discover British troops surrounding his home in the toughest area of trouble-torn Belfast. Encouraged by a fiercely Republican mother, he took to the streets with other school kids, throwing bricks, bottles and petrol bombs at soldiers. Jailed at 15 for having IRA links, he became a unit commander leading deadly missions for the INLA before joining the IPLO. But his decades of commitment to a free united Ireland turned to disillusion when bombs killed two little boys. By then he was a regular visitor to Scotland, where he befriended major gangland player Paul Ferris and then became the right-hand man of Tam 'The Licensee' McGraw. This is an account of one man's nightmare journey through blood, bombs, bullets and smuggling.
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Author:
Leslie, David, author
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Black & White Publishing, 2014.Edinburgh : Black & White Publishing, 2014.
Collation:
xiii, 269 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781845027513 (pbk)
Dewey class:
364.1092364.1092 LES364.1092LES
Language:
English
BRN:
1550285
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