Finding Dan |
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| Author:
| Quinn, Mark |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5144-9970-2 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2016 |
| Publisher: | Xlibris Corporation LLC
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $39.92 |
Book Description:
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Finding Dan is part historical fiction, part genealogical detective story. IRA man Daniel ORourke was the most dangerous man in Dungannon; Mal is his great-nephew, determined to find the real man behind the tales told by his family. This is a legend of evasion from arrest, internment on a diseased ship and hunger strike; it is the legend too of glories on the Gaelic football pitch, and a life spent on the run from the police and from the women who might have loved him. As Mals search...
More DescriptionFinding Dan is part historical fiction, part genealogical detective story. IRA man Daniel ORourke was the most dangerous man in Dungannon; Mal is his great-nephew, determined to find the real man behind the tales told by his family. This is a legend of evasion from arrest, internment on a diseased ship and hunger strike; it is the legend too of glories on the Gaelic football pitch, and a life spent on the run from the police and from the women who might have loved him. As Mals search deepens, Irelands troubled history interferes and a new legend of Dan emerges