Easter Rising (20th Anniversary Edition): A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion

"Whether you grew up in South Boston, Belfast, Brooklyn, or somewhere else entirely, you'll recognize something familiar in his search for identity, purpose, belonging, and home."-Ken Casey of The Dropkick Murphys, from the foreword

In All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald chronicled a heartbreaking saga of familial loss amid Irish South Boston's culture of silence. In Easter Rising, he tells the story of how he managed to survive it.

As the quiet outlier in a big Irish Catholic family, MacDon...