Easter Rising

Michael Patrick MacDonald helped launch Bostons successful gun-buyback program and is founder of the South Boston Vigil Group. He has won the American Book Award, a New England Literary Lights Award, and the Myers Center Outstanding Book Award administered by the Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America. His second book, the highly acclaimed memoir Easter Rising, was published in 2006, and will be available in paperback from Houghton Mifflin in March, 2008. He is currently writing the screenplay of All Souls for director Ron Shelton. MacDonald lives in Brooklyn.MacDonald, Michael Patrick is the author of 'Easter Rising ', published 2008 under ISBN 9780618918638 and ISBN 0618918639.