’This is Ireland’s most famous living writer tackling one of the most crucial, periods in its history...A Star Called Henry has all, the hallmarks of the start of a major titerary portrayal, of a national, experience’

-Guardian

’Both in its sweep and the vigour of its diagnosis of everything that is wrong with Irel.and’s sense of itself, this novel is the equal, of Grass’s The Tin Drum and Celine’s Journey to the End of the Night. Like those works, this is a brilliant and breathtaking act of apostasy...Here. for once. that most overused of terms is applicable: this really is a masterpiece’

-Carto Gebler,Irish Times

’The energy and full-blooded dialogue of Doyl.e’s creations are as much in evidence here as in the best of his previous work...A Star Called Henry is billed as Volume One of The Last Roundup. It is an exhilarating beginning’

-Daily Telegraph

Born in the Dublin sl.ums of 1902. his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores. Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he’s out robbing and begging, often cord and always hungry, but a prince of the streets. By Easter Monday, 1916, he’s fourteen years ol.d and already six-foot-two, a soldier in the Irish Citizen Army. A year later he’s ready to die for Irel.and again, a rebel, a Fenian and a killter. With his fathers wooden leg as his weapon. Henry becomes a republican legend - one of Michael Collins’ boys. a cop killer, an assassin on a stolen bike.

PART ONE

PART TWO

PART THREE

PART FOUR