The dead republic /
Doyle, Roddy, 1958-
The dead republic / Roddy Doyle. - New York : Viking, c2010. - 329 p. ; 24 cm.
After being saved from death by none other than Henry Fonda and engaging in a brief but ill-fated collaboration with legendary director John Ford, Irish rebel Henry Smart ends up settling into a quiet life in a village north of Dublin, where he finds work as a caretaker for a boys' school and takes up with a widow O'Kelly (who may be his long-disappeared wife). But a political bombing in Dublin in 1974 puts him in the spotlight, and suddenly the secret of his rebel past is out.
9780670021772 0670021776
2009044778
Young men--Ireland--Fiction.
Revolutionaries--Ireland--Fiction.
Ireland--Fiction.
Farce.
Historical fiction.
PR6054.O95 / D43 2010
823/.914
The dead republic / Roddy Doyle. - New York : Viking, c2010. - 329 p. ; 24 cm.
After being saved from death by none other than Henry Fonda and engaging in a brief but ill-fated collaboration with legendary director John Ford, Irish rebel Henry Smart ends up settling into a quiet life in a village north of Dublin, where he finds work as a caretaker for a boys' school and takes up with a widow O'Kelly (who may be his long-disappeared wife). But a political bombing in Dublin in 1974 puts him in the spotlight, and suddenly the secret of his rebel past is out.
9780670021772 0670021776
2009044778
Young men--Ireland--Fiction.
Revolutionaries--Ireland--Fiction.
Ireland--Fiction.
Farce.
Historical fiction.
PR6054.O95 / D43 2010
823/.914