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The Victim's Face
December 1956. The IRA begins its Border Campaign in Northern Ireland. It trains raw recruits with veterans like Dan Keohane and explosives expert Francie Shaw. A sleeper inside the Northern Security Services provides intelligence, and agents abroad buy heavy weapons to tip the balance. Can the IRA be held back? Rory Vance, a young Donegal man in the Fermanagh RUC, finds his relationship with ine, from across the border, severely tested by the conflict. Can it survive? The victims were not only soldiers and policemen. This novel closely follows the main facts of a neglected period of Irish Border history.
The Demons of Discord
Jamie Vance, a Presbyterian married to a Catholic girl, plays a leading part in Donegal Unionism. His fiercest enemy is Diamuid OMara, a hard-bitten IRA fighter. The novel details assassination, murder, bombings, arson, and conspiracies in Ireland and England. Amid this disorder, the strained relationship between Jamie and his wife, Caitlin, and his obsession with an Anglo-Irishwoman is played out. Diarmuid develops a passionate relationship with a young Dublin girl and then a tough fellow IRA activist, Mire. During World War II, the two strands of Unionism and Republicanism clash head-on in a deadly struggle and reach an explosive climax in the Fermanagh Lakelands over a critically important Allied base in the forefront of the war against Nazi control of the Atlantic.
The Stranded Tribe
The Stranded Tribe is the neglected story of the Ulster Unionists who were compelled to become part of the new Catholic and Gaelic Irish Free State in 1922. It follows the lives of the Presbyterian working-class Vance family, especially the two sons, William and Jamie, in the turbulent period of Irish history between 1895 and 1923. They live and work in East Donegal where one becomes involved with a local Ulster Volunteer unit and the other becomes a local railway official. In 1914 William Vance responds to the Empires call to fight Germany and joins the Ulster Division. As a member of the 11th Inniskilling Fusiliers, he takes part in the unbelievable slaughter of the first day of the Battle...
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