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. Seamus goes to college in Belfast, and Conor heads to Derry. 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.
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