The best Irish Biographies: Reddit reviews

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I was told that Lost Lives is a must read for anyone who wants to read not about the political narratives but all of the human lives which were sadly lost during the Troubles

1) I understand.

2) My Left Foot - By Christy Brown

My Left Foot is the autobiography of Christy Brown, an man born with Cerebral Palsy in early 1930's Ireland.

In the introduction, Brown writes about his life as a young boy growing up in Dublin. As a baby, his mother noticed that he could not hold his head up on his own. Later on he was diagnosed as having Cerebral Palsy, and everyone assumed he was physically and mentally handicapped. Everyone in his family thought he was a waste, but his mother who didn't give up on him.

One day while his little sister was playing with a piece of chalk, he took hold of it using the only part of his body he could control - his left foot and drew a scribble that resembled the letter 'A'. From then, everyone realised he wasn't mentally handicapped.

Christy went on to be a Painter, Writer and Influencer later in life and his autobiography basically tells you how it happened.

I won't spoil anymore of the book but here's a link to the book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/My-Left-Foot-Christy-Brown/dp/0749391774

3) Cowabunga indeed!

I highly recommend:

Banvard’s Folly by Paul Collins https://www.amazon.com/dp/0312300336/

The Constant Podcast https://www.constantpodcast.com/

This is a subject matter that really fascinates me. I’m glad to see it posted here.

I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said about the causes I just don’t think killing people was the best course of action for us. Got pretty messy pretty fast. You seem to have a very romantic or naive notion of the troubles.

If you want to support the terrorist group that covered up raping kids, murdered their own community, extorted their community and then had the gall to say they represented us, have at it mate. Like I think you’re an amoral mentalist but go for it.

Sleep well, if you’re stuck for bedtime reading I’d recommend lost lives maybe you can learn something about how futile the whole thing was.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Lives-Children-Northern-Troubles/dp/184018504X

This is the only thing I too cannot figure out! I've decided that for now, its better to have my tea the way I like it and just focus on paleo foods. Tea is really important to me =)

An aside: I recently learned from reading the book Full Tilt that some cultures use salt in their black tea instead of sugar! Dont know why I've never thought of that before, but I tried it and its really good. =)

Have you read DeLorean's autobiography titled "DeLorean"? It completely changed my view of him and I realized he was a victim of entrapment and the auto industry he tried to go against, who didn't like what he was doing. He was trying to go "against the man", and they took him down. Sad really. He had some amazing ahead-of-his-time concepts and technology. 30 years later, the DeLorean car still looks futuristic.

It's a good read. I highly suggest reading it.

Banvard's Folly by Paul Collins is a fascinating book about famous people who aren't anymore. Sounds like it's right up your sociological tech history alley.

If you like that I'd reccomend The Blue-eyes Salaryman A memoir of an Irish guy who came to Japan to do a graduate engineering programme on a Japanese government scholarship and became the first gaijin bucho at Mitsubishi.