Fleming, Thomas J.
Hours of gladness / Thomas Fleming. - 344 pages ; 17 cm.
Paradise Beach, New Jersey. The perfect place for Dick O'Gorman and Billy Kilroy to smuggle ashore Cuban missiles to be used in the Irish Republican Army's war against England. Paradise Beach is an Irish American enclave, one that has no idea about the violent upheaval into which it will soon be thrown. It is 1984. Irish Americans, preocuppied with a loss of political power in the cities, have little sympahty for Ireland and the IRA. This is expecially true of Mick O'Day, an ex-marine whose moral failure in Vietnam haunts him still. It is a combustible mix, as a British secret agent disguised as a priest sows suspicion between the Irish Americans and the IRA men that could ignite into a physical and spiritual explosion and could tear the community apart at its very seams.
0812566777
Irish Republican Army--Fiction
Irish--New Jersey--Fiction
Irish Americans--New Jersey--Fiction
Smuggling--New Jersey--Fiction
PS3556.L45 / H68 2001
Hours of gladness / Thomas Fleming. - 344 pages ; 17 cm.
Paradise Beach, New Jersey. The perfect place for Dick O'Gorman and Billy Kilroy to smuggle ashore Cuban missiles to be used in the Irish Republican Army's war against England. Paradise Beach is an Irish American enclave, one that has no idea about the violent upheaval into which it will soon be thrown. It is 1984. Irish Americans, preocuppied with a loss of political power in the cities, have little sympahty for Ireland and the IRA. This is expecially true of Mick O'Day, an ex-marine whose moral failure in Vietnam haunts him still. It is a combustible mix, as a British secret agent disguised as a priest sows suspicion between the Irish Americans and the IRA men that could ignite into a physical and spiritual explosion and could tear the community apart at its very seams.
0812566777
Irish Republican Army--Fiction
Irish--New Jersey--Fiction
Irish Americans--New Jersey--Fiction
Smuggling--New Jersey--Fiction
PS3556.L45 / H68 2001