More than formidable, the obstacles are insurmountable.
It also follows the lives of his various nemeses, showing just how formidable they are so we know what Conor is up against. The book follows his lengthy path to martyrdom. Conor springs from a long line of doomed Catholic rebels.
Trinity is primarily the story of Conor Larkin, a heroic protagonist who did not seem so much a man as the embodiment of the Catholic cause. It’s a very readable way to learn the material and it is a novel, after all, so the bias can be overlooked in favor of the story. He covers an immense amount of historical, political, and cultural material to produce an informative if one-sided account. Uris allows for no shades of gray in his portrayal of the greedy British aristocracy, manipulating the working poor Irish Protestants against the Catholics. It explains the condition of the dirt poor Catholic peasantry and how they were kept in dire poverty by a corrupt political system abetted by religious bigotry. Trinity is the story of the Irish Catholic struggle against English Protestant oppression in the years before WWI.
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