I have just finished Redemption Falls by Joseph O'Connor (brother of Sinéad O'Connor, a frequently controversial, and frequently brilliant, Irish singer). The book is a historical novel following, in time, the events covered in his earlier novel Star of the Sea. Some see Redemption Falls as a sequel to Star of the Sea, but I don't agree - the characters are different, and there is no real connection between the two except that they both deal with Irish immigrants to mid-nineteenth century America.
If a measure of a book's worth is how much you want to get home from work in order to get back to it, then this book is worthy.
The novel centres around an Irish revolutionary, latterly Acting Governor of the Mountain Territory in 1860s America, called Con O'Keeffe. The novel comprises legal documents, ballads, poems, interviews, narratives and a host of other paraphernalia associated with O'Keeffe. Some reviews see this as too complicated, but for me it worked.
An excellent book - get it and read it.
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