‘I read it in one sitting…’

“I read it in one sitting – from morning till early the next morning,” writes Professor Tony Crowley, Chair of English at Leeds University. He goes on:

“Jake MacSiacais's memoir is a rare and wonderful book. A work of acute political analysis, based on a lifetime dedicated to Irish Republicanism and the Irish language, this is also a deeply personal account that represents in detail the sufferings and joys of a life lived in a particular place at a specific moment in history. Surfing into Life on a Bathboard is honest and forthright, generous and compassionate, committed but open, critical but offering hope; it's a gem of writing”.