Leon Uris · 1976
Trinity
A Novel of Ireland
“For centuries, the Irish had been taught that their history began with an English conquest. It did not. It ended with one.”
Begin ReadingIt is the novel that introduced millions of readers to the history of Ireland — a seven-hundred-page epic that sweeps from the Great Famine to the Easter Rising of 1916, following three Irish families through three generations of love, loss, resistance, and revolution. Leon Uris spent three years researching Ireland, reading over five hundred books, walking the land, and talking to the people. The result was his most ambitious novel: a story of a nation forged in suffering and defiance, told through the lives of the Larkins, the MacLeods, and the Hubbles — Catholic, Protestant, and Anglo-Irish — each with their own truth, their own wounds, their own claim to the land.
“I tell you, long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge.”
— Conor Larkin, Trinity
Trinity is not a subtle novel. It wears its heart on its sleeve and its politics on its chest. It is angry, romantic, sweeping, and sometimes sentimental. But it is also utterly compelling — a novel that makes you feel the cold of a Donegal winter, the hunger of the Famine years, the rage of evicted tenants, and the hope that refuses to die. This website is an exploration of the novel, its author, its history, and why it still matters.