The Irish Trilogy : Seek the Fair Land / The Silent People / The Scorching Wind

Inbunden bok. London : Bello/Pan Macmillan. 2014.

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Walter Macken's epic trilogy following one family through 300 years of Irish history.

SEEK THE FAIR LAND: It is 1649. As the English soldiers trample the Irish homesteads, leaving behind them a trail of barbarity and destruction, a few brave men set out to seek a 'fair land' over the brow of the hill. Among them is Dominick MacMahon, whose wife has been killed in the bloody massacre of Drogheda, and whose son and daughter, and a wounded priest, Father Sebastian, accompany him. But as he journeys in search of peace and freedom he is relentlessly pursued by Coote, the Cromwellian ruler of Connaught ...

THE SILENT PEAPLE is set in the Ireland of 1826, when millions knew only famine, oppression and degradation. The landlords ground down the tenant farmers; wars and injustice were rife. But Dualta Duane battles against tyranny, struggling to survive the evils of hunger, poverty and disease. Courageous and fortified by an enduring love, Duane?s unconquerable spirit personifies the love of freedom that raged in the soul of Ireland.

THE SCORCHING WIND is a vivid and memorable novel set in Dublin. 1916, during the Easter Rebellion and the bitter years which followed. Through the diverging lives of two young brothers the agony of Ireland during these harrowing times is witnessed. It is the time of the Sinn Fein, of the dreaded Tans, of terrible deeds and of loyalties strained to breaking-point and beyond ...

Walter Macken (1915-1967) was an Irish novelist and dramatist whose tales combine an honest and often harsh reflection of the realities of Irish life with a love of Ireland and a compassionate respect for its people. [Engelsk text].

AV WALTER MACKEN: Quench the Moon / I Am Alone / Rain on the Wind / The Bogman / Sunset on the Window Panes / Sullivan / Seek the Fair Land / The Silent People / The Scorching Wind / Brown Lord of the Mountain.

DRAMATIK: Mungo's Mansion / Vacant Possession / Home is the Hero / Twilight is the Warrior.

NOVELLSAMLINGAR: The Green Hills / God Made Sunday and other Stories / The Coll Doll and other Stories / City of the Tribes / The Grass People.