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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Vintage Uk
Publication date March 25, 2010
Pages 329
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780224090094
ISBN-10 0224090097
Dimensions 1.25 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight 1.25 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Published in Great Britain
Original list price $29.40
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: At the end of Oh, Play That Thing, the second volume of Roddy Doyle's trilogy about Henry Smart, Henry, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawls into the Utah desert to die - only to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western. Ford recognizes a fellow Irish rebel and determines to turn Henry's story - a boy volunteer at the GPO in 1916, a hitman for Michael Collins, a republican legend - into a film. He appoints him 'IRA consultant' on his new film, The Quiet Man. The Dead Republic opens in 1951. Henry is returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. With him are the stars of Ford's film, John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, and the famous director himself, 'Pappy', who in a series of intense, highly charged meetings has tried to suck the soul out of Henry and turn it into Hollywood gold-dust. Ten years later Henry is in Dublin, working in Ratheen as a school caretaker, nicknamed 'Hoppy Henry' by the boys on account of his wooden leg. When he is caught in a bomb blast, that wooden leg gets left behind. He finds himself a hero: the old IRA veteran who's lost his leg to a UVF bomb. Wheeled out by theProvos, Henry is to find he will have other uses too, when the peace process begins in deadly secrecy...In three brilliant novels, A Star Called Henry, Oh, Play That Thing and The Dead Republic, Roddy Doyle has told the whole history of Ireland in the twentieth century. And in the person of his hero, he has created one of the great characters of modern fiction.

Editions
Hardcover
Book cover for 9780224090094 Book cover for 9780670021772
 
from Viking Pr (April 29, 2010)
9780670021772 | details & prices | 329 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.50 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $26.95
About: The triumphant conclusion to the trilogy that began with A Star Called Henry Roddy Doyle's irrepressible Irish rebel Henry Smart is back-and he is not mellowing with age.
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from Vintage Uk (March 25, 2010)
9780224090094 | details & prices | 329 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $29.40
About: At the end of Oh, Play That Thing, the second volume of Roddy Doyle's trilogy about Henry Smart, Henry, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawls into the Utah desert to die - only to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780224090100
 
from Gardners Books (March 1, 2010); titled "Dead Republic"
9780224090100 | details & prices | List price $23.70
About: We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die - only to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western.

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