Ireland of the early 1900’s is not the Ireland portrayed in the Quiet Man.
In this historical novel, three childhood companions tell of Ireland’s most turbulent decade. PJ becomes a rebel, Reed a priest, and Fiona marries an Ulster Protestant.
Reed invites readers to join the Irish 10th Division in the gullies of Gallipoli. PJ will show them the horrors of Flanders trench warfare, and the heroics of the Irish 16th and the Ulster 36th Divisions.
After suffering through an abnormal marriage, Fiona emigrates to Philadelphia.
Meanwhile, Reed and PJ return to Ireland to participate in the Easter Rising, Anglo-Irish War, the Treaty, Ulster, and the Irish Civil War—a conflict in which Irishmen execute Irishmen.