![]() ![]() ![]() To preserve their privileges, they acted as a garrison against Irish uprisings. It is the first popular novel to dispel the myth that the Catholic/Protestant conflict is a Holy War Uris categorically locates the source of Ireland’s misery in the unholy alliance between English imperialism and Irish capitalism.įor over 700 years after England conquered Ireland, the hapless Irish were tenants on their own stolen land, close to starvation and stripped of all rights and dignity.Įngland devised a foolproof method of controlling the rebellious natives: colonies of Protestant peasants and workers were established and granted better conditions. ![]() Trinity recounts the bitter struggle for Irish independence from 1885 to 1915. Leon Uris’s new bestseller, Trinity, can be best described as a politically important potboiler. ![]()
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