A blend of oral reminiscence politics & social history, this is the biography of a working-class generation born during the depression of the 1890s, called into war in 1914, finding its feet in the 1920s only to be struck down by unemployment in the 1930s, & then rescued by the post-war boom. ...

Tells the story of the famous pianist, Glenn Gould, an enigmatic figure who made some of the most acclaimed classical recordings of the last century. He has become a national icon in Canada. This title delivers a portrait of this imposing figure in music history. ...

Examines the important role psychological factors play in fostering changes toward more democratic structures. This book presents an alternative to the theories of social & political changes that fail to test the causal assumption they make about human psychology. ...

Danny Boyle directs Christopher Eccleston in this off-beat drama. Eccleston plays Strayman, a so-called 'spontaneous poet' who looks after a large pack of stray dogs. When he meets a shy homeless girl called Strumpet (Genna G), he's impressed enough by her musical gifts to accompany her, along with all Strayman's dogs & his eccentric neighbour, down to London in search of fame & fortune
- & a place on Top of the Pops.
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Set in Dublin during the Lockout of 1913, this is a panoramic novel of city life. It embraces a range of social milieux, from the miseries of the tenements to the cultivated, bourgeois Bradshaws. It introduces a memorable cast of characters such as: the main protagonist, Fitz, a model of the hard-working, loyal & abused trade unionist. ...

Peter O' Toole, Peter Ustinov & Cyril Cusack star in this saga of 1900s Dublin life, adapted from the novels of James Plunkett. Jim Larkin (O' Toole) arrives in Dublin during one of its most turbulent eras to organise the unions & get a fair deal for the working man in a time of widespread poverty & destitution. Larkin, nicknamed ' Big Jim', founded the Worker's Union of Ireland & became best-known for his role in the Dublin Lockout of 1913 after employees were threatened with losing their jobs if they refused to sign a pledge not to join a union or engage in any sympathetic strikes. ...

Music is in Sammy's blood. His grandfather was a jazz musician, & Sammy just wants to be in a b&, but the band he's got is on the road toward self-destructing. When everything in his life seems to be headed for catastrophe, will music be enough to keep his life together? ...