Thunder and Lightning
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Thunder and Lightning

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Thunder and Lightning

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About This Book

Colin Bateman grew up in the pleasant seaside town of Bangor in Northern Ireland. Ten miles away, the IRA, the UDA and the UVF were blowing Belfast apart, but he was more concerned with making his first million through the GBA – the Gerbil Breeding Association (sadly short-lived when his gerbils turned out to be cannibals). Inspired by All the President's Men and The Odessa File to become a crusading journalist, Bateman joined the local paper when he was a seventeen-year-old punk rocker, where instead of bringing down Presidents and finding Nazis, he found himself being hunted down by the notorious Kilcooley Strollers, a dance troupe with an axe to grind. So close to the Troubles, yet so far away – Thunder and Lightning is the story of one boy's journey through the rather soft side of life in a town which lacked tough streets but boasted many cul-de-sacs. A town where an occasional terrorist bomb was seen as an opportunity to profiteer and where his father became a paramilitary by accident.

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Publisher
Merrion Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781785374364
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Irish History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for Thunder and Lightning
  3. Author Bio
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. 1. The Wellington Olympics
  9. 2. The Gerbil-Breeding Association
  10. 3. The Age of Crimplene
  11. 4. Pogles’ Wood
  12. 5. The Story of The Blues
  13. 6. Woodstock & Wine Barrel
  14. 7. Half Man Half Biscuit
  15. 8. Strolling Along Minding My Own Business
  16. 9. Press Baron
  17. 10. The Triangle
  18. 11. The Gilded Spires