Trinity: A Novel of Ireland

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x2. First trade edition, following the Franklin Library leather bound edition. Jacket edges lightly creased, front board lightly soiled, top corner lightly bumped. 1976 Hard Cover. 751, [3] pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt titles, maps on endpapers. "In Ireland there is no future, only the past happening over and over again. Leon Uris selected the period from the famine of the 1840s to the Easter Rising of 1916 to tell the story of Ireland's past, explain the 'troubles' of the present and give insight into her future. This Trinity consists of: the Larkin family of Ballytogue, generations of Catholic hill farmers in Donegal fighting for survival against the harshness of the land and the injustice of the regime. Conor Larkin is disquieted by the longings of his people for their freedom and his star-crossed love affair with a Protestant girl. The Hubbles, representing three centuries of British aristocracy, the mighty Earls of Foyle, who ventured to Ireland to conquer, colonize and exploit. The MacLeods of Belfast, a family of devout shipyard workers whose Scottish-Presbyterian ancestors were planted in Ulster to secure the Crown's interests. This is the Trinity, the oil and water of the Irish epic that would never mix, their interrelations of love and hate in a terrible and beautiful drama spanning over half a century. The author passed away in 2003, leaving behind such great novels as Battle Cry, The Angry Hills, Mila 18, QB VII; Trinity; The Haj; Mitla Pass; and O'Hara's Choice (posthumously published), as well as the screenplay for Gunfight at the O.K. Corral." CONTENTS: Ballyutogue; The Orange Card; The Booley House; Bogside; Dusty Bluebells; Sixmilecross; A Terrible Beauty; MAPS: Ireland; Ballyutogue; Belfast Lough and Weed Works; Ulster; Derry; Belfast; Dublin; The Raid.