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Red Mist: Roy Keane and the Irish World Cup Blues - a Fan´s Story
Conor O´callaghan
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Description for Red Mist: Roy Keane and the Irish World Cup Blues - a Fan´s Story
Paperback. This is a witty and winning memoir of the World Cup scandal surrounding a certain Irish footballer and a controversial team manager Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: WSJA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 209. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
2002 was the year of Roy Keane, if not exactly Roy Keane's year. Banished from Ireland's World Cup squad and then suspended by the English FA after comments in his best-selling autobiography, the Manchester United and Ireland captain was seldom out of the news. Red Mist is Conor O'Callaghan's memoir of the year when an Irish hero was arraigned in the court of public opinion: argued about in bars and across shop counters, debated by the media and surrounded by a torrent of rumours. From the drawings of O'Callaghan's football-mad seven-year-old son and the mysterious disappearance of his rag doll ... Read more
2002 was the year of Roy Keane, if not exactly Roy Keane's year. Banished from Ireland's World Cup squad and then suspended by the English FA after comments in his best-selling autobiography, the Manchester United and Ireland captain was seldom out of the news. Red Mist is Conor O'Callaghan's memoir of the year when an Irish hero was arraigned in the court of public opinion: argued about in bars and across shop counters, debated by the media and surrounded by a torrent of rumours. From the drawings of O'Callaghan's football-mad seven-year-old son and the mysterious disappearance of his rag doll ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747570790
SKU
KKD0004069
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
About Conor O´callaghan
Conor O'Callaghan is the author of three acclaimed poetry collections, The History of Rain (shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection and winner of the Patrick Kavanagh Award), Seatown and Fiction. He lives in Co. Louth, Republic of Ireland, with his wife and fellow poet Vona Groarke and their two children, Tommy and Eve.
Reviews for Red Mist: Roy Keane and the Irish World Cup Blues - a Fan´s Story
'Explores the relationship between the Irish people and their reluctant hero ... hilarious ... Witty, charming, compulsive' Four Four Two 'An engaging piece of work, lit by flashes of sharp humour and wonderful idiosyncrasies ... O'Callaghan has a deep, sure-footed and self-deprecating humour. Red Mist is a quiet joy to read and frequently a laugh-out-loud book' Dermot Bolger, Sunday ... Read more