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Miracle Man: From Homeless to Hollywood (Reprint)

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ISBN: 9781909393257
AuthorCannon, Glenn
Pub Date24/10/2015
BindingPaperback
Pages310
CountryIRL
Dewey791.430280
Quick overview Why did they call Glenn Gannon the ‘miracle man’? Because, unlike most of his contemporaries, Glenn survived an avalanche of adversity in a rollercoaster life and emerged to become a playwright, composer and actor on the silver screen. This amazing memoir, a cocktail of human horror laced with humour, sees Glenn eventually triumph against all the odds. It is a modern parable for the marginalised, a story full of hope, spirit and compassion told in a beautiful lyrical style.
€15.00

Born into a loving home in the heart of Dublin’s Liberties, Glenn ended up with his brother and two sisters in the hellhole of the Goldenbridge Orphanage after his mother, Rosie, a street flower seller, collapsed in the street and his father, Nicky, temporarily abandoned the family. He was later sexually abused for a long period in his youth. Glenn survived all this and eventually married and helped raise two daughters and run his own business. A series of further traumatic events left him living homeless on the streets and sheltering under the bridges of the Grand Canal for three years. On many occasions he was at death’s door without even a glimmer of hope. What stood to him was an extraordinary faith and the intervention of many earth angels.

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Born into a loving home in the heart of Dublin’s Liberties, Glenn ended up with his brother and two sisters in the hellhole of the Goldenbridge Orphanage after his mother, Rosie, a street flower seller, collapsed in the street and his father, Nicky, temporarily abandoned the family. He was later sexually abused for a long period in his youth. Glenn survived all this and eventually married and helped raise two daughters and run his own business. A series of further traumatic events left him living homeless on the streets and sheltering under the bridges of the Grand Canal for three years. On many occasions he was at death’s door without even a glimmer of hope. What stood to him was an extraordinary faith and the intervention of many earth angels.

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