Trinity (Trinity and Redemption #1) by Leon Uris

Trinity begins towards the end of the nineteenth century and ends with the Easter Rising in 1916. It concerns the interwoven fortunes of the Larkin family, Catholic farmers in Donegal; the MacLeods, Protestant shipyard workers in Belfast; and the Hubbles, Ango-Irish landed gentry who form a cynical alliance with the Weeds, who are Belfast industrialists. These three groups of people from the 'trinity' of the title.
   Leon Uris is, to quote the New York Times Book Review, 'a story-teller in a direct line from those men who sat round fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human'. From our first meeting with Conor Larkin as a young boy spying from the hayloft on the excitements of a wake, to the day of his violent death, we are swept along by the narrative. The many people in this story, with their lives and hates, their hopes, their frustrations, their divided loyalties, their defeats and their triumphs, are fictions. The times they live through are not. It is an extraordinary feat, thus to have wedded the magic of story-telling with a factual approach to history without diminishing the spell of the story or the real tragedy of the historical events.
   By the time the reader reaches the end of this novel he has been (to quote the New York Times again) 'to places where he or she has never been before. The news items from Belfast will never seem quite the same again'.

Genres: Historical Fiction - Ireland - Classics War
Condition: Good*
Published: 1976 by Andre Deutsch Limited
Pages: 751
ISBN: 0233968342
Weight: 1070g
* Does have sun fade to the spine, and obvious signs of age.