Anti-hare coursing book moves rapidly up Ireland’s online bestseller list!
I’m glad to reveal that my book, Bad Hare Days has this week moved rapidly up the list of books sold online in Ireland. Today, it is highly placed on the Bestsellers.ie site, in all its categories: biography, Irish history, local history, local Irish history etc. With the present hare-coursing season underway, I am encouraged as a campaigner against bloodsports that the book is “taking off” like this.
The book tells the story of Ireland’s anti-hare coursing campaign, which dates back to 1966, and of my own thirty year involvement in the campaign. Apart from making the case against hare coursing and recounting the ups and downs of the campaign, I devote the greater part of the book to the high price that some campaigners, including myself, have had to pay for “rocking the boat” on this issue…unfair dismissal from work, wrongful arrests and interrogations when peaceful campaigners were blamed for the actions of the so-called “Animal Liberation Front” (releasing of hares and sabotaging of coursing venues), tense courtroom dramas, and other misadventures.
If this interests you, I suggest you might have a look at the site, Bestsellers.ie, to confirm the book’s performance.
I have more detailed information about the book itself on www.myspace.com/banharecoursingireland.
I hope that the book will hasten the demise of bloodsports in Ireland, but also that it will let the wider public see what some of us campaigners have had to put up with in our bid to seek protection for the humble hare.
