{"product_id":"days-of-heaven","title":"Days of Heaven","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey were the best days of our lives.\u003c\/em\u003e This is how so many of the Irish remember Italia 90 and all that came with it — the atmosphere of wild celebration, the scenes of chaos, the fine madness.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDeclan Lynch recalls the great moments — Packie’s save and his leap into immortality; Pavarotti’s ‘Nessun Dorma’ and U2’s ‘Put ’Em Under Pressure’; Kevin Sheedy’s sweet strike; and all that drinking. \u003cem\u003eDays of Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e is full of hilarious accounts of how the Irish abandoned reality in that glorious time called Italia 90.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBut it wasn’t just the fortunes of the football team that were changing during the Charlton Years.\u003c\/em\u003e The economy was about to be utterly transformed; the Church was on the verge of disaster; there were Irish people winning Oscars and selling millions of rock ’n’ roll albums; there were new voices in the media; and a woman was running for President. And there was Jack, our most unlikely icon.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn this brilliant book, Declan Lynch brings it all together, the sporting, the social and the autobiographical. Dermot Morgan and Father Michael Cleary were part of the story too; U2 and UB40 made their contributions alongside Eamon Dunphy and Charles Haughey.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDays of Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e brings us back to this extraordinary time. And it brings it all to life again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey were the best days of our lives.\u003c\/em\u003e This is how so many of the Irish remember Italia 90 and all that came with it — the atmosphere of wild celebration, the scenes of chaos, the fine madness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gill Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55123865502083,"sku":"9780717146376","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0910\/3664\/7811\/files\/50d65aa7f058061189fb731e58aa8e9b.jpg?v=1741011081","url":"https:\/\/shop.gill.ie\/products\/days-of-heaven","provider":"Gill","version":"1.0","type":"link"}