The Dead Republic
A Novel

It is 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.

Wheeled out by the Provos, 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.