The End of the Hunt (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Flanagan
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Historical novel
- Time of Work: 1914-1934
- Setting: Ireland and London
- Principal Characters: Patrick Prentiss, Christopher Blake, Janice Nugent, Frank Lacy, Elizabeth Keating, Winston Churchill, Michael Collins, Eamon de Valera
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: History, France or French people, Revolutions, England or English people, War, Catholics or Catholic Church, Terrorism or terrorists, Ireland or Irish people, Utopias
- Locales: London, England, Ireland
In 1979, Thomas Flanagan was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for his The Year of the French. That novel told the story of how the Irish failed, despite French assistance, to expel the British and create a republic in 1789, and how this event passed into myth. In 1988, Flanagan, again in fictional form, related the events of the 1860’s Fenian rising against the British in The Tenants of Time. That rebellion, too, failed but also left a legacy of myth and symbol to affect another generation. In The End of the Hunt, Flanagan returns...
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