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Synopsis
Like his father before him, Donn is born to the now mythical role of the Lord of the Mountain, a remote community in rural Ireland, unmarked by the passage of time. But Donn longs for a wider kingdom. He deserts his bride, roams the world, fights in wars, is footloose - yet finds that he is homesick. Sixteen years later he returns to take up the threads of his old life, to learn to love his afflicted daughter, and to bring progress to the neglected green valley. Light comes, water flows, the land prospers. Then, on a night of innocent festivity, a monstrous crime is perpetrated. His kingdom violated, Donn dedicates himself to a terrible revenge that can only destroy the avenger as well as the hunted
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Walter Macken was born in Galway in 1915. He was a writer of short stories, novels and plays. Originally an actor, principally with the Taibhdhearc in Galway, and The Abbey Theatre, he played lead roles on Broadway in M. J. Molloy's The King of Friday's Men and his own play Home Is the Hero. He also acted in films, notably in Arthur Dreifuss' adaptation of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy of Irish historical novels Seek the Fair Land, The Silent People and The Scorching Wind. He passed away in 1967.
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- PublisherFirecrest Pub.
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0859975339
- ISBN 13 9780859975339
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition thus (preceded by the 1967 hardcover release) first printing of a fine hardcover, pages toning in a fine dustjacket. Featuring Donn from a remote village in Ireland who leaves for 16 years, comes back, and turns to revenge when a monstrous crime is committed there. Seller Inventory # 2390
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