The cover art showing Muhammad Ali in full fight gear , against an (oddly incongrous) rural Irish filed and forest, filmed in Wicklow as pre-fight publicity photographs.

Author and Journalist Dave Hannigan . Born in Cork city, Dave Hannigan is a former Irish Young Journalist of the Year. Starting his career at The Sunday Tribune, he now writes a sports column in The Irish Times. He has also worked for the Evening Echo, The Irish Echo, The Sunday Times and the Irish Daily Mail. Hannigan has written non-fiction books about Winston Churchill, Eamon de Valera, Terence MacSwiney and Brendan Behan. He has also written two other books about Muhammad Ali; Drama in the Bahamas and Fifteen Rounds in the Wilderness. He also lectured in history in Suffolk County Community College , New York @sunyofficial.bsky.social

Recently released from Merrion Press, The Big Fight : When Ali Conquered Ireland explores the story of Muhammad Ali’s 1972 visit to Dublin. Corkonian and New York resident Dave Hannigan's 3rd book on Ali's legacy.
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24.03.2025 10:18 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Book review: A literary artifact to be celebrated Gay Talese was an inveterate chronicler of the New York city and all who sailed in her for more than half a century

@irishexaminer.bsky.social books A Town Without Time: Gay Talese's New York by Gay Talese @marinerbooks.bsky.social reviewed by @davehannigan.bsky.social #books

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22.02.2025 13:12 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Book review: Killing of a black boy whitewashed 'The Barn' is a glimpse of a nation’s troubled past that offers insight in to the tortured present, and makes you worry about the bleak future

@irishexaminer.bsky.social books The Barn: The Murder of Emmett Till and the Cradle of American Racism by Wright Thompson (Hutchinson Heinemann) reviewed by @davehannigan.bsky.social
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25.01.2025 14:03 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Thanks Joe

30.12.2024 15:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Legend of Sparrow Robertson: The last sportswriter in Nazi Paris Described as ‘illiteracy’s most famous product’, what Robertson lacked in skill he made up for in tenacity under the cloud of Nazi occupation

The Legend of Sparrow Robertson: The last sportswriter in Nazi Paris

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30.12.2024 13:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

New Two Writers Slinging Yang stars former WBO middleweight champ Andy Lee—author of my favorite sports book, "Fighter." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

17.12.2024 18:25 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Dublin's story is one where sport often mixes with all kinds of different worlds Former Dublin footballer Michael Darragh Macauley mentions the Dublin 1 postcode, and that goes to the heart of what the area is up against. There is a stigma to various addresses in the capital that ...

Muhammad Ali had a meeting in Dublin about the Troubles, Gerry Hutch used his sporting links as a weapon and a shield, the fight for Gaza is led by men and women who wore the sky blue of the city.
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07.12.2024 12:18 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Wondering if anybody out there knows who owns the rights to this photo? Want to use it in a book and desperate to pay and credit the owner etc...

05.12.2024 20:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Michael Moynihan: Does using VQ as a catch-all term affect MacCurtain Street’s identity? As a controversy, linking the street named after former lord mayor Tomás MacCurtain to Queen Victoria shrinks in comparison with the ongoing failure to rename Anglesea Street after another hero, Teren...

Today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social city column: MacCurtain Street, @davehannigan.bsky.social the greatest poem ever written about Cork, the North Mon and Theo Dorgan.

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05.12.2024 09:59 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Image of Muhammad Ali in sports gear on an Irish hillside.

Muhammad Ali knocks out Al Blue Lewis in the 11th round in Croke PARK in July 1972

Looking forward to the Spring 2025 schedules on publishing, and here's one guaranteed bestseller that jumped out - @davehannigan.bsky.social 's book on Muhammad Ali in Ireland - The Big Fight - Coming March 2025 - Merrion Press

04.12.2024 15:45 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Book review: Breaking the news: The sordid and legendary days of the ‘New York Post’ 'Paper of Wreckage' is an entertaining, fast-paced, and hilarious read — like the 'New York Post' in its heyday

@irishexaminer.bsky.social books: Paper of Wreckage: The Rogues, Renegades, Wiseguys, Wankers, and Relentless Reporters Who Redefined American Media
Susan Mulcahy and Frank DiGiacamo
@atriabooks.bsky.social reviewed by @davehannigan.bsky.social #books

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01.12.2024 20:38 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

ANALYSIS: Irish football’s optimism-pessimism swing THE definition of optimism is ‘the quality of being full of hope and emphasising the good parts of a situation, or a belief that something good will happen’. With Irish football, it's easy to be pessimistic about our optimism. An academic study could be conducted into how public opinion on the health of the game in this country has evolved. When we had world class players in the 1980s but could not get over the line with regards to reaching major tournaments, pessimism was the default view of the national team.

Ireland's national football team provokes optimism and pessimism in equal measure. Heimir Hallgrimsson now knows the reality of the task on his hands. I looked beyond the narratives & investigated the data.

20.11.2024 22:51 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Very funny, outrageous yarns, makes you wistful about the business!

19.11.2024 20:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Described Giuseppe Garibaldi as "a pitiful donkey"

15.11.2024 21:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

After a half-year (or so) hiatus, the Pearlman Journalism Substack has returned. Topic: Why it's time for everyone to leave Twitter. pearlman.substack.com/p/the-yang-s...

15.11.2024 14:55 — 👍 46    🔁 6    💬 8    📌 2

Currently reading this rollicking affair, the most accurately titled book of 2024

15.11.2024 14:18 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0