A Bloody Canvas - The Mike McTigue Story
by Andrew Gallimore
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Author: Andrew GallimoreEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-09
ISBN: 1856355365
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Mercier Press
Summary of A Bloody Canvas - The Mike McTigue Story
A Bloody Canvas: The Mike McTigue Story tells the story of how Michael Francis McTigue left Kilnamona, Co. Clare, to seek fame and fortune in the United States, only for circumstances to bring him back to Dublin where he would win one of the strangest world title fights in boxing history. Set partly against the background of the Irish Civil War, it also tells of a bitterly divided people who managed to set aside their differences for twenty rounds of boxing before the guns started firing and the mines started exploding once more. But primarily, A Bloody Canvas is a biography. It tells how an ageing journeyman fighter found himself to be the right Irishman, in the right place at the right time. This is the saga of an underdog boxer laced with wrenching danger and a panoramic sense of life from late eighteenth-century rural Ireland to the Irish Civil War, to the heady days of the Jazz Age in New York and the desperation of the Great Depression. ""Filled with colorful characters, wonderful period detail, and a brave, ultimately doomed hero. Excellent."" Booklist (Starred Review)Irish Books
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