Out Of Ireland - Softcover
Robert Devereux is a man of romantic sensibility who is also a man of action. He is one of the leaders of the Young Ireland group of 1848 who called upon his people to take up arms against the British. His journals, uncovered from a hop farm in Tasmania, tell the story of a highly unusual rebel.
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"These novels (Out of Ireland and Highways to a War) will surely become Australian classics" (Robert Gray The Australian's Review of Books)
"Robert Devereux is a splendid literary invention. Koch is magnificent in Out of Ireland... he has englarged our understanding of the capabilities of fiction" (Michael Sharkey Daily Telegraph (Sydney))
"When you have read Out of Ireland you will have joined a circle of friends who lived and loved and struggled 150 years ago, and you will wonder how long it will be before you will read as great and compelling a book again" (Richard O'Brien, Ambassador of Ireland to Australia)
"Some of the finest writing in Australian fiction" (The Australian's Review of Books)
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"Robert Devereux is a splendid literary invention. Koch is magnificent in Out of Ireland... he has englarged our understanding of the capabilities of fiction" (Michael Sharkey Daily Telegraph (Sydney))
"When you have read Out of Ireland you will have joined a circle of friends who lived and loved and struggled 150 years ago, and you will wonder how long it will be before you will read as great and compelling a book again" (Richard O'Brien, Ambassador of Ireland to Australia)
"Some of the finest writing in Australian fiction" (The Australian's Review of Books)
This masterful novel tells the story of a man who suffers exile through fighting for the future of his people.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0099286971
- ISBN 13 9780099286974
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages720
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