Hours of gladness / Thomas Fleming.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English New York : A Tor Book, 2001©1999 Description: 344 pages ; 17 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0812566777 (paperback)Subject(s): Irish Republican Army -- Fiction | Irish -- New Jersey -- Fiction | Irish Americans -- New Jersey -- Fiction | Smuggling -- New Jersey -- FictionLOC classification: PS3556.L45 H68 2001Summary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Books | MEF Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi | Genel Koleksiyon | PS 3556 .L45 H68 2001 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | Bağışlayan: MEF International School | 0010206 |
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.