This small group, with the support of the few Irish politicians, becomes the Republican Brotherhood, the roots of Sinn Féin, and the whisper of freedom throughout Ireland.Ī 1995 sequel, Redemption, ties up many loose ends in the saga. In Derry, Conor discovers other like-minded Irish tired of the oppression of the Catholics by the 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 taken place between 18. In Bogside Conor witnesses the extent of the disaster that has befallen the Irish people. It is the electrifying story of an idealistic young Catholic rebel and the valiant and beautiful Protestant girl who defied her heritage to join his cause. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup.

Seamus goes to college in Belfast, and Conor heads to Derry. Read reviews and buy Trinity - by Leon Uris (Hardcover) at Target. 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. The book describes a number of historical events, from the Great Famine of the 1840s to the Easter Rising in 1916.Ĭonor's best friend Seamus O'Neill begins school in town under a Protestant named Andrew Ingram. The book tells the story of the intertwining lives of the following families: the Larkins and O'Neills, Catholic hill farmers from the fictional town of Ballyutogue in County Donegal the Macleods, Protestant shipyard workers from Belfast and the Hubbles. It spent 21 weeks atop The New York Times Best Sellers list in 1976 and 14 weeks in 1977. Trinity is a novel by American author Leon Uris, published in 1976 by Doubleday.

Trinity by Leon Uris