Trinity

Trinity is a novel by American author Leon Uris, published in 1976 by Doubleday. The book tells the story of the intertwining lives of the Larkins and O'Neills Catholic hill farmers from the fictional town of Ballyutogue in County Donegal; the Macleods, Protestant shipyard workers from Belfast; and the Hubbles, representatives of three centuries of Anglo-Irish aristocracy. It also tells the story of Ireland from the Great Irish Famine of the 1840... more

Trinity is a novel by American author Leon Uris, published in 1976 by Doubleday. The book tells the story of the intertwining lives of the Larkins and O'Neills Catholic hill farmers from the fictional town of Ballyutogue in County Donegal; the Macleods, Protestant shipyard workers from Belfast; and the Hubbles, representatives of three centuries of Anglo-Irish aristocracy. It also tells the story of Ireland from the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s to the Easter Rising of 1916. The book describes a number of historical events, including the Gaelic revival in the early twentieth century, and the Curragh Mutiny in which a British division's officer corps resigned en masse rather than obey an order to disarm gun-smuggling members of the Ulster Volunteer Force. In addition, this foreshadows the Partition of Ireland and the Irish Civil War in 1922-23. The book further portrays the British and Protestant elite's manipulation of religious and ethnic divides to further their own ends as well... less