Blood-Dark Track. A Family History

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Granta Publications
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2000
Edition: Unknown

Description: 338 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. At The Heart Of This History Of Two Families Are The Stories Of Two Flawed And Charismatic Men.It Is A Narrative Of Murder, Paranoia, Espionage And Fear, With One Of The Most Notorious Political Killings In Pre-war Ireland Playing A Key Role In Its Characters' Lives.

Publishers Description: In this story of a family and its place in history, Joseph O'Neill reconstructs the fate of two men he never met and who never met each other, but who have had a profound effect on his life. His Turkish and Irish grandfathers, Joseph Dakad and James O'Neill, were both vigorous and strong-willed men, patriarchs and visionaries. And they were each imprisoned, one in Palestine and the other in Ireland, during World War II. The Turkish hotelier and entrepreneur was suspected by the British of being a spy for the Germans, and left a vertiginous testament of his experiences in colonial jails. The Irish labourer and poacher was a dedicated IRA man in Cork, an area where memories of the Black and Tan war were recent and bitter. In retracing their lives, their grandson writes about the sunlit world of provincial Turkey, and the fierce passions of rural Southern Ireland. The secrets he uncovers are haunting and tragic, and resonate in him and his family. He explores the different meanings of a passionate commitment, and how compelling and dangerous they can be.

ISBN: 9781862072886