Wild colonial boys

Wild colonial boys
Author: Thomas Paul Burgess
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2024-01-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1526173360

Ruefrex were one of Northern Ireland’s most popular and uncompromising punk rock bands. Emerging from the Belfast street-gang culture of the late-1970s, the group, inspired by The Clash, enjoyed a turbulent, decade-long career. They played for millions on CNN and Channel 4, toured with The Pogues and recorded the controversial ‘The Wild Colonial Boy’, which attacked American donations to Northern Irish terrorist organisations. Throughout it all, founder member, songwriter and spokesperson Thomas Paul Burgess ensured the band remained faithful to their Protestant, working-class origins. This candid memoir takes us on a journey from the streets of Belfast to encounters with U2, Shane MacGowan, The Cure, The Fall and Seamus Heaney. From strife-torn 1970s Belfast to bohemian London, Wild colonial boys tells the story of a punk band who refused to give up and stayed true to their punk roots.

Wild Colonial Boy

Wild Colonial Boy
Author: Dan Docherty
Publisher: Austin Macauley
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2020-10-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781528991957

This autobiographical novel narrates the journey of Dan Docherty, a young Glasgow law graduate and karate black belt, who left his traditional Catholic family in 1975 to serve in the notoriously corrupt Royal Hong Kong Police. In Hong Kong, he learned Chinese language intensively, then drill, musketry and law. A famous Tai Chi master accepted him as a disciple and trained him to become an international full contact champion. In this book we'll have a few beers with colourful characters like Big Don and Mountie Dave. We'll visit exotic locales--Manila, Macao, Singapore... We'll witness Dan in full contact competition and in street fight action. As they say in the Hong Kong Police, "If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined."

The Wild Colonial Boy

The Wild Colonial Boy
Author: James Hynes
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466868104

After years of violence, a tense calm pervades Northern Ireland, soon to be broken by Jimmy Coogan, an IRA veteran gone renegade. Jimmy has stolen ten pounds of plastic explosive, intending to destroy the parliamentary ambitions of the IRA leadership. Into Jimmy's turbulent world come two young Americans: Brian, vain, ironic, but well-meaning; and Clare, a beautiful, earnest college student. In Ireland on an errand for his Irish Republican family in Detroit, Brian is recruited to Jimmy's bloody mission by his cousin Maire, Coogan's sharp-tongued wife. Soon they are all drawn into the unforgiving labyrinth of modern terrorism, borne toward a horrific and fatal climax in James Hynes's thrilling TheWild Colonial Boy

Midnite

Midnite
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2004
Genre: Bushrangers
ISBN: 9780141307312

The Wild Colonial Boys

The Wild Colonial Boys
Author: Paula Hunt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2008
Genre: Bushrangers
ISBN: 1742030165

These are Australia's most notorious bushragers. In the 1800s, bushrangers roamed the Australian countryside. They robbed and stole and murdered when it suited them. They flouted the law and terrified the population. But who were these villains and what drove them to a life of crime? History is vividly brought to life Paula Hunt in THE WILD COLONIAL BOYS.

Cold Chisel

Cold Chisel
Author: Michael Lawrence
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781925556209

The first edition of Wild Colonial Boys, published in 2012 was used as a resource by both Cold Chisel and their management (who dubbed it 'the bible'). The first edition has been out of print for over two years, and with the launch of Jimmy Barnes' new autobiography, and five more years of Chisel activity, it is time to release the totally revised and updated second edition. With new, never before published photos covering their entire career, updates to all chapters from 1975, an extensive new chapter detailing Chisel's career post 2012, this is a must have book for all Cold Chisel fans!

Colonial Kids

Colonial Kids
Author: Laurie Carlson
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 153
Release: 1997-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1569767815

Gives instructions for preparing foods, making clothes, and creating other items used by European settlers in America, thereby providing a description of the daily life of these colonists.

As Flies to Whatless Boys

As Flies to Whatless Boys
Author: Robert Antoni
Publisher: Akashic Books
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2013-09-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1617751561

In 1845, British engineer John Adolphus Etzler invented machines to transform the division of labour and sent Londoners to form a utopian community in Trinidad. One recruit is a young boy, Willy, who helps build the society's future home in a remote swamp. Far from realising Etzler's dream of paradise, most are stricken with the 'Black Vomit'. Willy and his father make a final attempt to fix a wrecked boat, but Willy's father falls ill and dies. Willy must decide whether return home with Marguerite, who he loves, or become the head of his family in their new home.