Bibliograph

The abstainer, Ian McGuire

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The abstainer, Ian McGuire

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eng

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Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The abstainer

Responsibility statement

Ian McGuire

Summary

1867. The rebels will be hanged at dawn, and their brotherhood is already plotting revenge. Stephen Doyle, an Irish-American veteran of the Civil War, arrives in Manchester from New York with a thirst for blood. He has joined the Fenians, a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland by any means necessary. Head Constable James O'Connor has fled grief and drink in Dublin for a sober start in Manchester, and connections with his fellow Irishmen are proving to be particularly advantageous in spying on Fenian activity. When a long-lost nephew returns from America and arrives on O'Connor's doorstep looking for work, O'Connor cannot foresee the way his fragile new life will be imperiled, and how his and Doyle's fates will be intertwined

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