Conor says goodbye to Shelley and makes his way to the place where the guns will be unloaded, Sixmilecross. Despite the risk, they decide to go through with things. Conor gets beat up very badly, and Shelley is the one who comes to take care of him, so they get back together.Ī while after this mess, Conor worries that one of the train drivers has told the rugby coach about the big plans. Conor manages to warn most of the Catholic workers, but gets caught by the mob himself after he helps the train drivers who do the gun running. Conor is preparing for the final and biggest gun shipment when a massive riot breaks out in the shipyard where he works. They make several more runs as the very creepy Reverend MacIvor continues to stir up trouble in Belfast between Protestants and Catholics. With Shelley out of the picture, Conor gets down to business with the gun running and they have their first successful transfer.
Shelley realizes that they can never live happily together because of this, and decides it’s best for both of them to break up. Conor doesn’t want to go back to Ireland, but he has a dream where Kevin O’Garvey comes to him and kind of shames him into continuing his work with the Brotherhood. The tour ends and Conor and Shelley get to have a little holiday in Blackpool. He was supposed to meet with another Brotherhood leader to discuss plans for smuggling guns into Ireland, but he balked and ran out. We left off the story with Conor on tour with the rugby team in England. Look away now if you want to retain any happy feelings. This book, without being boring and mundane, will explain why that is.I have finally returned to bring you the depressing conclusion to Trinity, the Irish epic by Leon Uris.
I've been to Northern Ireland and the tension is obvious but when I looked around at the folks who live there I realized that none of them have really been safe for over 80 years. I fall in love with the characters anew each time I read it. I really love this book and usually read it a couple of times a year. It deals mostly with an Irish Catholic family but it also has some exceptionally kind British characters, too. There is absolutely nothing to be critical about. So, I was ready to be critical of Uris's book and research. I had read Tim Pat Coogan's The History of the IRA, an exceptional nonfiction study.
It's a beautiful book and explains "The Troubles" and the IRA thoroughly. He wrote about other subjects, too, and honestly I did not expect much from Trinity. Uris wrote a lot about Jewish history and Israel. Trinity is a heartbreaker and actually very different from his usual genre. Trinity and The Source are my two favorite Uris books. Has anybody read it? I'm starting to but I'm not sure it's for me. This is a book about Ireland in the 1800.
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