Out Of Ireland
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:1st Jul '13
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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