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The dead republic a novel

It is 1951. Henry is returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. With him are the stars of Ford's film, John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, and the famous director himself, 'Pappy', who in a series of intense, highly charged meetings has tried to suck the soul out of Henry and turn it into Hollywood gold-dust.

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  • "Last roundup"
  • "Dead republic"@it

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  • "It is 1951. Henry is returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. With him are the stars of Ford's film, John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, and the famous director himself, 'Pappy', who in a series of intense, highly charged meetings has tried to suck the soul out of Henry and turn it into Hollywood gold-dust."@en
  • "Henry Smart returns to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. He is in Dublin, working in Barrytown as a school janitor. When Henry is caught in a bomb blast, his wooden leg gets left behind in the debris. He wakes in hospital to find himself a hero: the old IRA veteran who's lost his leg to a UVF bomb. It doesn't take long before the Provos come calling. They need men like Henry. They wheel him out at funerals and rallies, a heroic veteran of 1916. Henry is to find he will have other uses too, when the peace process begins in deadly secrecy."
  • "Henry Smart returns to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. He is in Dublin, working in Barrytown as a school janitor. When Henry is caught in a bomb blast, his wooden leg gets left behind in the debris. He wakes in hospital to find himself a hero: the old IRA veteran who's lost his leg to a UVF bomb. It doesn't take long before the Provos come calling. They need men like Henry. They wheel him out at funerals and rallies, a heroic veteran of 1916. Henry is to find he will have other uses too, when the peace process begins in deadly secrecy."@en
  • "After being saved from death by none other than Henry Fonda and engaging in a brief but ill-fated collaboration with legendary director John Ford, Irish rebel Henry Smart ends up settling into a quiet life in a village north of Dublin."
  • "At the end of Oh, Play That Thing, Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawls into the Utah desert to die - only to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western. Ford recognizes a fellow Irish rebel and determines to turn Henry's story - a boy volunteer at the GPO in 1916, a hitman for Michael Collins, a republican legend - into a film."
  • "The triumphant conclusion to the trilogy that began with A Star Called Henry. Henry Smart is back. It is 1946, and Henry has crawled into the desert of Utah's Monument Valley to die. He's stumbled onto a film set though, and ends up in Hollywood collaborating with John Ford on a script based on his life. Eventually, Henry finds himself back in Ireland, where he becomes a custodian, and meets up with a woman who may or may not be his long-lost wife. After being injured in a political bombing in Dublin, the secret of his rebel past comes out, and Henry is a national hero. Or are his troubles just beginning' Raucous, colorful, and epic, The Dead Republic is the magnificent final act in the life of one of Doyle's most unforgettable characters."@en
  • "In 1951 reist een oorspronkelijk Ierse man als scriptadviseur met beroemde filmmakers terug naar Ierland, waar hij na onenigheid zijn eigen weg gaat."
  • "After being saved from death by none other than Henry Fonda and engaging in a brief but ill-fated collaboration with legendary director John Ford, Irish rebel Henry Smart ends up settling into a quiet life in a village north of Dublin, where he finds work as a caretaker for a boys' school and takes up with a widow O'Kelly (who may be his long-disappeared wife). But a political bombing in Dublin in 1974 puts him in the spotlight, and suddenly the secret of his rebel past is out."@en
  • "After being saved from death by none other than Henry Fonda and engaging in a brief but ill-fated collaboration with legendary director John Ford, Irish rebel Henry Smart ends up settling into a quiet life in a village north of Dublin, where he finds work as a caretaker for a boys' school and takes up with a widow O'Kelly (who may be his long-disappeared wife). But a political bombing in Dublin in 1974 puts him in the spotlight, and suddenly the secret of his rebel past is out."
  • "Henry Smart kehrt 1951 nach langjährigem Exil in den USA in seine Heimat Irland zurück. Der berühmte Hollywood-Regisseur John Ford will das Leben des einstigen IRA-Kämpfers verfilmen. Doch Henry, der nach einem Unfall ein Bein verloren hat, sagt ab. Fast vergessen, fängt er als Hausmeister in einer Schule bei Dublin an. Nachdem er dort bei einem Bombenattentat auch noch sein Holzbein verliert, wird Henry von der Unabhängigkeitsbewegung zum Helden erklärt. Und sein Kampf geht weiter, bis in unsere Tage. Roddy Doyle erzählt in seinem als Meisterwerk gefeierten Roman von einem Mann, der sich nie geschlagen gibt, und lässt auf unvergleichliche Weise die verworrene Geschichte Irlands lebendig werden."

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  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Farce"@en
  • "Farce"
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Die Rückkehr des Henry Smart : Roman"
  • "De dode republiek"
  • "Una vita da eroe"@it
  • "Una vita da eroe"
  • "The dead republic a novel"@en
  • "The death republic"
  • "De dødes republik : roman"@da
  • "The dead republic"
  • "The dead republic"@en
  • "The Dead Republic"
  • "˜Dieœ Rückkehr des Henry Smart Roman"
  • "Die Rückkehr des Henry Smart Roman"

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