The Year Of The French

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Thomas Flanagan

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In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, Ireland. They were the advance guard, to be followed by other French ships with the leader of the rebellion, Wolfe Tone. Briefly they triumphed, raising hopes among the impoverished local peasantry. But help was too late and too little, and before long the insurgency collapsed before a brutal English counter-attack. The Year of the French brings to life peasants and landlords, Protestants and Catholics, soldiers, politicians and poets, along with old and abiding questions of secular and religious commitments, empire, occupation and rebellion. It is quite simply a great historical novel.

Author Biography:

Thomas Flanagan (1923-2002) was an Irish-American, born in Connecticut. After serving in the Navy, he studied for his PhD at Columbia University, during which time his thesis was published as a book- The Irish Novelists (1959). His novels include The Year of the French, The Tenants of Time, and The End of the Hunt. Seamus Deane was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1996 for his novel Reading in the Dark.

Release date NZ

October 31st, 2004

Author

Thomas Flanagan

Pages

544

Edition

Main

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Dimensions

132x206x30

ISBN-13

9781590171080

Product ID

2478619

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