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 following families: 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... 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 following families: 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... less