Uris' persistently researched and reconstituted history goes even further back with 18th century insets and the potato famine and Parnell and, and, and. This small group, with the support of the few Irish politicians, becomes the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the roots of Sinn Féin, and the whisper of freedom throughout Ireland.With his usual partisan magnanimity, Uris devotes himself to another popular/unpopular lost cause, the Irish, and in particular the Fenian struggle which extended from the mid 19th century to the Easter Monday Uprising of 1916 in all its "Terrible Beauty." The Trinity of the title, according to the publishers, refers to three families (only two are around for most of the book) but surely must be the past, present and future which keeps repeating itself inexorably through the years. In Derry, Conor discovers other like-minded Irish tired of the oppression of the Catholics by the British and Protestants. Held down by the Protestant reign in Derry's labor unions, the Catholics are dying slowly without hope.
Bogside is in tatters and a state of despair that has stricken its inhabitants since before the Great Famine that had occurred between 18. In Bogside Conor witnesses the extent of the disaster that has befallen the Irish people. Seamus goes to college in Belfast, and Conor heads to Derry. Ingram, who teaches them of the power of books and the history of their Irish forefathers. As the years pass, the boys become friends with Mr. Conor, needed at home, helps his father in the fields, until he becomes an apprentice at a blacksmith shop. This stirs the fire of rebellion in Conor, and sets him onto the path for freedom for his Irish people.Ĭonor's best friend Seamus O'Neill begins school in town under a Protestant named Mr.
1976 1st edition Doubleday & Company publishers, New York thick hardbound in dark blue boards with lime green lettering along spine quite good condition of unmarked pages boards have minor bumps - see pics dust jacket has tears and so is only fair condition.Īmidst the ancient Irish Catholic mourning process for his grandfather Kilty, 12-year-old Conor Larkin has a vision of the town storyteller, who tells him of the history of the Fenians, an early 19th-century rebel group.
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