Over twenty years, three Irish traveller families become engulfed in a cycle of violent revenge, taunting each other with video messages, risking the families’ honour and placing big-money bets on the result of bare-knuckle fights between the clans’ best fighters. Two men, two neutral referees, a country lane. No gloves, no biting, no rests. The last man standing wins, takes home the money, and more importantly, the bragging rights. Knuckle is the story of Irish traveller, clan head and champion bare-knuckle boxer James Quinn McDonagh. It’s a journey from his grandfather’s barrel-top caravan to the modern life of the travellers, a brutal story of threats, guns, and fists, an antidote to the cleaned-up portrayal of travellers in the media, a gritty and truthful insight into a hidden world.
* Books about Travellers and Gypsies have been successful this year - Mikey Walsh's 'Gypsy Boy' has sold 65k in all editions. Knuckle offers this insight into the life of the travelling community, but also crosses over into true crime, in the vein of Lenny McLean (372k) and Dave Courtney (132k). * James Quinn McDonagh, the author, is the subject of a Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary filmed over the course of 12 years, which will air on the BBC in 2012
Title: Knuckle
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
James Quinn McDonagh
ISBN 13: 9780007448265
ISBN 10: 0007448260
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: Collins
Publication Date: 9/03/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Biography & autobiography
Dewey Classification:
305.891497092
(DC23)
;
796.83092
(DC22)
NBS Classification: Biography: Sport
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Weight: 414g