After the Lockout

<p>An ambitious and compelling first novel about a key moment in Irish history.</p> <p>November 1917. With tensions in Ireland war in Europe and revolution in Russia Victor Lennon returns to his home village after a long exile. Radicalised by his experiences in the Dublin Lockout and Easter Rising Victor is a hero to many but a danger to some.</p> <p>Those closest to Victor know his true nature: his father Pius now drinking himself to death; his oldest friend Charlie wounded in the trenches; and the love of his life Maggie who he left behind years before. But soon Victor and the fearsome parish priest Stanislaus Benedict are on a collision course with the very souls of the people caught between religion and socialism.</p> <p>Told from the perspectives of these two equally strong-willed characters After the Lockout is a first novel of tremendous ambition and achievement. At its heart is a conflict emblematic of a recurring faultline in Irish history and of one more eternal and universal: between hope and experience; between ideals and human weakness.</p>