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The Skelper and Me: A memoir of making history in Derry
Tony Doherty
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'As I grew older I often asked myself whether history has made me who I am, and will I, in turn, make history with that?’
Tony Doherty has lived in the shadow of his father’s execution on Bloody Sunday. At 18 he found himself facing long-term imprisonment, yet the soldier who shot his father was a free man.
The Skelper and Me is no ordinary memoir. It is a triumph of working class resolve and resilience over the last bastion of Empire. Epitomising the old adage that ‘if you didn’t laugh you’d cry,’ it ... Read more
'As I grew older I often asked myself whether history has made me who I am, and will I, in turn, make history with that?’
Tony Doherty has lived in the shadow of his father’s execution on Bloody Sunday. At 18 he found himself facing long-term imprisonment, yet the soldier who shot his father was a free man.
The Skelper and Me is no ordinary memoir. It is a triumph of working class resolve and resilience over the last bastion of Empire. Epitomising the old adage that ‘if you didn’t laugh you’d cry,’ it ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
The Mercier Press Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781781176733
SKU
9781781176733
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About Tony Doherty
Tony Doherty is the author of This Man's Wee Boy and The Dead Beside Us. This book completes the trilogy
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