Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up From Under

This utterly unconventional narrative of reinvention begins with the young MacDonald's first forays outside the soul-crushing walls of Southie's Old Colony housing project. In greater Boston and eventually New York's East Village, he becomes part of the club scene swirling around Mission of Burma, the Clash, Johnny Rotten, and the Beastie Boys. MacDonald provides one-of-a-kind 1980s social history and a powerful glimpse of what punk music was for him: a lifesaving form of subversion and self-education.