The Last of the Bald Heads is Ferdia Mac Anna's remembering of his remarkable youth - from the trials and tribulations of growing up in a bohemian household in Howth with a theatre director father and flamboyant, charismatic mother, through to his punk days in Dublin and stardom as Rocky De Valera - before finding love and having to face a brain haemorrhage and cancer.



Using diaries from his time 'on-the-road' and many photographs, Ferdia interweaves his life story with individual vignettes that flash back and capture the most important moments and influences on his life.
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Told with the author's trademark wit and lightness of touch, The Last of the Bald Heads is the engrossing, enchanting account of an extraordinary life.