Blood Relations - Eilis Dillon

Blood Relations - Eilís Dillon
1993, paperback

It is Easter 1916, and in their run-down country house outside Galway the Gould family await news of the Rising in Dublin. In a powerful and often harrowing narrative, we follow their stories through the Troubles, the setting up of the Irish parliament, and the terror of the Black and Tans, a bitter struggle during which sons turn against fathers and next-door neighbours become enemies. Skilfully this brilliant book re-creates the excitement, the fears and the divided loyalties in a time of killing and revolution.
With superb storytelling power and a knowledge born of deep insight, Eilís Dillon charts the violent course of the War of Independence - the historic moments, the horrors of imprisonment, the hangings and assassinations, and the guerrilla fighting spurred on by courage and desperation.
Gripping and memorable, Blood Relations gives a human scale to the drama of a historic time.

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