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Out Of Ireland

Christopher Koch author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:1st Jul '13

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This masterful novel tells the story of a man who suffers exile through fighting for the future of his people.

A leader of the Young Ireland rebellion of 1948, Robert Devereux is an Irish gentleman who is prepared to hazard a life of privilege in the fight for his country's freedom.

Transported to Van Diemen's Land as a political prisoner, he enters a life that greatly changes him, falling in love with a young Irish convict woman.

A leader of the Young Ireland rebellion of 1848, Robert Devereux is an Irish gentleman who is prepared to hazard a life of privilege in the fight for his country's freedom.

Transported to Van Diemen's Land as a political prisoner, he enters a life that greatly changes him, falling in love with a young Irish convict woman.

Through Kathleen O'Rahilly he comes to know the people he's long romanticised; but his cause, and the life he has lost, will not let him go.

These novels (Out of Ireland and Highways to a War) will surely become Australian classics -- Robert Gray * The Australian's Review of Books *
Robert Devereux is a splendid literary invention. Koch is magnificent in Out of Ireland... he has englarged our understanding of the capabilities of fiction -- Michael Sharkey * Daily Telegraph (Sydney) *
When you have read Out of Ireland you will have joined a circle of friends who lived and loved and struggled 150 years ago, and you will wonder how long it will be before you will read as great and compelling a book again -- Richard O'Brien, Ambassador of Ireland to Australia
Some of the finest writing in Australian fiction * The Australian's Review of Books *

ISBN: 9780099584490

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 31mm

Weight: 490g

720 pages