McRae’s latest book looks at how boxing helped ease tensions during the Troubles
On Round 18 of TKO, Chris Lloyd and Carl Frampton were joined by journalist and sportswriter Donald McRae, author of some of the best boxing books of all time, including A Man’s World: The Double Life of Emile Griffith and Dark Trade: Lost In Boxing.
McRae had interviewed Frampton on many occasions in the past, and shares the Belfast fighter’s view that the Northern Ireland capital is, also, the fight capital of the world.
McRae’s latest book, In Sunshine or in Shadow: How Boxing Brought Hope in the Troubles, looks not just at boxing in the city and its wild popularity, but also the impact that the sport had on sectarian tensions d …
- March 17, 2023
