The Dead Republic
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Author: Roddy Doyle
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 336
At the end of Oh, Play That Thing, the second volume of Roddy Doyle s trilogy about Henry Smart, Henry, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawls into the Utah desert to die only to be discovered by John Ford, who s there shooting his latest Western. Ford recognizes a fellow Irish rebel and determines to turn Henry s story into a film. He appoints him IRA consultant on his new film, The Quiet Man. he Dead Republic opens in 1951. Henry is returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. With him are the stars of Ford s film, John Wayne and Maureen O Hara, and the famous director himself, Pappy , who in series of intense, highly charged meetings has tried to suck the soul out of Henry and turn it into Hollywood gold-dust. en years later Henry is in Dublin, working in Barrytown as a school janitor, feared a little by the teachers but loved by the boys, who call him Hoppy Henry on account of his wooden leg. When Henry is caught in a bomb blast, that wooden leg gets left behind in the debris. He wakes in hospital to find himself a hero- the old IRA veteran who s lost his leg to a UVF bomb. It doesn t take long before the Provos come calling.
Author: Roddy Doyle
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 336
At the end of Oh, Play That Thing, the second volume of Roddy Doyle s trilogy about Henry Smart, Henry, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawls into the Utah desert to die only to be discovered by John Ford, who s there shooting his latest Western. Ford recognizes a fellow Irish rebel and determines to turn Henry s story into a film. He appoints him IRA consultant on his new film, The Quiet Man. he Dead Republic opens in 1951. Henry is returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. With him are the stars of Ford s film, John Wayne and Maureen O Hara, and the famous director himself, Pappy , who in series of intense, highly charged meetings has tried to suck the soul out of Henry and turn it into Hollywood gold-dust. en years later Henry is in Dublin, working in Barrytown as a school janitor, feared a little by the teachers but loved by the boys, who call him Hoppy Henry on account of his wooden leg. When Henry is caught in a bomb blast, that wooden leg gets left behind in the debris. He wakes in hospital to find himself a hero- the old IRA veteran who s lost his leg to a UVF bomb. It doesn t take long before the Provos come calling.
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Roddy Doyle
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 336
At the end of Oh, Play That Thing, the second volume of Roddy Doyle s trilogy about Henry Smart, Henry, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawls into the Utah desert to die only to be discovered by John Ford, who s there shooting his latest Western. Ford recognizes a fellow Irish rebel and determines to turn Henry s story into a film. He appoints him IRA consultant on his new film, The Quiet Man. he Dead Republic opens in 1951. Henry is returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. With him are the stars of Ford s film, John Wayne and Maureen O Hara, and the famous director himself, Pappy , who in series of intense, highly charged meetings has tried to suck the soul out of Henry and turn it into Hollywood gold-dust. en years later Henry is in Dublin, working in Barrytown as a school janitor, feared a little by the teachers but loved by the boys, who call him Hoppy Henry on account of his wooden leg. When Henry is caught in a bomb blast, that wooden leg gets left behind in the debris. He wakes in hospital to find himself a hero- the old IRA veteran who s lost his leg to a UVF bomb. It doesn t take long before the Provos come calling.
Author: Roddy Doyle
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 336
At the end of Oh, Play That Thing, the second volume of Roddy Doyle s trilogy about Henry Smart, Henry, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawls into the Utah desert to die only to be discovered by John Ford, who s there shooting his latest Western. Ford recognizes a fellow Irish rebel and determines to turn Henry s story into a film. He appoints him IRA consultant on his new film, The Quiet Man. he Dead Republic opens in 1951. Henry is returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. With him are the stars of Ford s film, John Wayne and Maureen O Hara, and the famous director himself, Pappy , who in series of intense, highly charged meetings has tried to suck the soul out of Henry and turn it into Hollywood gold-dust. en years later Henry is in Dublin, working in Barrytown as a school janitor, feared a little by the teachers but loved by the boys, who call him Hoppy Henry on account of his wooden leg. When Henry is caught in a bomb blast, that wooden leg gets left behind in the debris. He wakes in hospital to find himself a hero- the old IRA veteran who s lost his leg to a UVF bomb. It doesn t take long before the Provos come calling.
The Dead Republic