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The Dead Republic: A Novel is a 2010 novel by Irish author Roddy Doyle which concluded The Last Roundup trilogy. The first book in the trilogy was A Star Called Henry (1999), and the second was Oh, Play That Thing! (2004). Plot. An aging Henry Smart is attempting to cement his reputation.
- Roddy Doyle
- 2010
Jan 1, 2010 · Roddy Doyle. At the end of Oh, Play That Thing, the second volume of Roddy Doyle's trilogy about Henry Smart, Henry, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawls into the Utah desert to die - only to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western.
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May 3, 2011 · Henry, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawls into the Utah desert to die — only to be discovered by director John Ford, who recognizes a fellow Irish rebel — a boy volunteer at the GPO in 1916, a hitman for Michael Collins, a republican legend.
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- Roddy Doyle
The Dead Republic opens in 1951 with Henry returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. Henry, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawls into the Utah desert to die — only to be discovered by director John Ford, who recognizes a fellow Irish rebel — a boy volunteer at the GPO in 1916, a hitman for ...
May 14, 2010 · “The Dead Republic” tells of the later life of Henry Smart, an Irishman born in 1901: a “handsome man” to all the women, an I.R.A. hit man as a teenager, a con man after he arrives...
Apr 2, 2010 · After some Runyonesque run-ins with Manhattan gangsters, and a small-town interlude in the company of a self-improving female grifter, he washes up in Chicago and lands a job as Louis...
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Apr 29, 2010 · After being injured in a political bombing in Dublin, the secret of his rebel past comes out, and Henry is a national hero. Or are his troubles just beginning? Raucous, colorful, and epic, The Dead Republic is the magnificent final act in the life of one of Doyle's most unforgettable characters.
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