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The Last Roundup Series

This epic saga follows the tumultuous life of a rebel through pivotal moments in Irish history. From the gritty streets of Dublin to the fight for freedom, the narrative explores personal sacrifices and complex moralities at the heart of national uprising. Witness a journey from orphanhood to an icon of resistance, where love and loyalty face relentless pressure. It's a powerful story of identity, tradition, and finding one's place in a world defined by conflict.

The Dead Republic
Oh, Play That Thing
A Star Called Henry

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  1. 1

    A Star Called Henry

    • 343 pages
    • 13 hours of reading
    3.9(8279)Add rating

    Born in the slums of Dublin in 1902, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing, begging, often cold, always hungry, but a prince of the streets. At 14, he's a soldier in the Irish Citizen Army, fighting for freedom. A year later he's ready to die for Ireland again, a rebel, a Fenian and a killer. Then, with his father's wooden leg as a weapon, Henry becomes a republican legend - one of Michael Collins' boys, a copy killer, an assassin on stolen bike. A historical novel like none before.

    A Star Called Henry
  2. 2

    Oh, Play That Thing

    • 384 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
    3.2(128)Add rating

    It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district and soon there are eyes on his back and men in the shadows. It is time to leave, for another America- Chicago is wild and new, and newest of all is the music. Furious, wild, happy music played by a man with a trumpet and bleeding lips called Louis Armstrong. His music is everywhere, coming from every open door, every phonograph. But Armstrong is a prisoner of his colour; there are places a black man cannot go, things he cannot do. Armstrong needs a man, a white man, and the man he chooses is Henry Smart.

    Oh, Play That Thing
  3. 3

    The Dead Republic

    • 336 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
    3.5(53)Add rating

    We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die - only to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western.

    The Dead Republic