Trinity
IRELAND always a troubled land...a land of divided loyalties and tragic passions...of intense loves and fiercer hatreds... From the famine of the 1840s to the Easter Rising of 1916, Leon Uris' powerful and stirring novel charts the saga of Ireland through the fortunes of three families: THE...
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IRELAND
always a troubled land...a land of divided loyalties and tragic passions...of intense loves and fiercer hatreds...
From the famine of the 1840s to the Easter Rising of 1916, Leon Uris' powerful and stirring novel charts the saga of Ireland through the fortunes of three families:
THE LARKINS
Catholic hill-farmers from Donegal...
THE MACLEODS
devout Protestant shipyard workers in Belfast...
THE HUBBLES
representatives of three centuries of British aristocracy, the mighty Earls of Foyle...
THIS IS THE TRINITY
the three faces of Ireland, whose loves and hates, defeats and triumphs make up a terrible and beautiful drama spanning half a century.
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Format: paperback
Publish date: 1977
Publisher: Corgi
Pages no: 890
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Irish Literature,
War,
Ireland
bookshelves: e-book, autumn-2014, religion, roman-catholic, protestant, politics, christian, britain-ireland, colonial-overlords, donegal, epic-proportions, spring-2015, historical-fiction, published-1976, skoolzy-stuff Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Irish Lives in War and Revolution Trinity College...
Excellent historical fiction about Ireland's struggles with England and the fight to declare it's independence. Trinity is based on actual events and takes the reader on a journey throughout Ireland and tells the heartbreaking history of a country that longed to remove itself from the tyrannical rul...
STILL NO SPOILERS!Done. Not one of my favorite books. I think lots of other people might like it. The history clearly chronicled in ythe last 100 pages was a plus. For me the characters had no depth. What you get is a story of Ireland's history through the 1800s and up to the beginning of the Great ...
I read this way back in high school. This is another one of those where I was surprised at a young age by how much I liked a book that was "hard to read." (For a youngster.) I've started some of Uris's other books and haven't liked any of them enough to continue.
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