The newest album in stores now
Our new album Bankers and Gangsters is
vintage Black 47 - uproarious, tuneful,
challenging, current and above all,
entertaining.
"Bankers and Gangsters is a timely echo of the
populist anger being felt around the country
towards big bailouts for everyone but the
everyman"
Staten Island Advance
"With the excellent Bankers and Gangsters, Black
47 remind us that substance and a sense of fun
are by no means mutually exclusive" All
Music Guide
"Cinematic storytelling and an ability to shift
nimbly between heavy and light subject matter.
There are New York street tales, stories of
Irish historical figures, outlandish adventures,
and ballads steeped in sadness and loss and its
own brawny and bracing brand of Celtic rock"
Philadelphia Inquirer
Visit our shop to order your copy today.
Rockin' the Bronx: A new novel from Larry Kirwan
In
this big, passionate, colourful novel set in
1980-82, the Bronx is burning, Bobby Sands is
dying, John Lennon is being stalked, the Reagan
Revolution has begun and AIDS is about to be
identified. But life goes on in the immigrant
bars of Bainbridge Avenue as Sean arrives from
Ireland looking for his girlfriend, Mary, and
finds a lot more than he bargained for.
"This is a Bronx tale full of raucous life and
unvarnished reality. It captures a time when the
Bronx had become a synonym for urban decay and
conflict, and a new generation of Irish
immigrants struggled to get a toehold on
America.
There are no ethnic niceties in these pages, no
phony-baloney version of multicultural harmony.
This is the urban American of the 80s in all its
raw squalor and splendor. Every page sparkles
with memorable characters and lyrical accuracy."
-
Peter Quinn (Banished Children of Eve)

