The Irish Rebel
The Journal of My Great-Great-Grandfather
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I have no doubt that our parish priest is a fine and holy man, it's just that as a retired parishioner I was more than a little concerned that my final debt as a salvation-bound Catholic was to be a last all-out crusade to free the Holy Land one more time and this all to be led by none other than our own Father Gruber perhaps with the concordance and fidelity of ravaging Templar Knights hiding out somewhere in the back country of Minnesota.
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From the Irish village of Castlewarren in the 1850s to Lanesboro, Minnesota, The Irish Rebel follows the life of Edward Ruth. A story of survival, love, war, and life fashioned around a historical framework, this fictionalized account portrays the hardships of Ireland and provides a glimpse of the American Civil War through the eyes of an immigrant.
Based on writings from his great-great-grandfather’s journey, author Peter L. Crawley has portrayed Ruth’s struggle to extricate himself from the bogs of starvation and cultural ambivalence to make a name for himself as a dentist in his new country, while he tries to prove himself worthy for the hand of one Irish maiden. The journey takes him from Ireland during “The Times of Troubles,” with England’s insensitive colonial policies, to the American Civil War and Morgan’s Raiders, led by the infamous John Hunt Morgan.
The Irish Rebel tells the tale of the striking similarity between the American Civil War and England’s disgraceful disavowal of Irish Home Rule. This novel provides a vivid account of that historical period as portrayed by one who has Gaelic blood in him as well as a sentimental dose of unflappable Irish wit.
About the Author
PETER L. CRAWLEY is the author of The Tahitian Fig Tree and Pomare’s Necklace. He lives on the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia with his wife, Maeva.