Man of No Property History Trinity in the eighties was

Trinity in the eighties was a pluralistic island of intellect and swagger in a grim Ireland steeped in recession

Seventy-five years on from the original publication

inclusive and richly illustrated

the voice of Hugh O’Rourke’s wife torn between loyalty to her husband and a rising desire for her seducer

her compelling story provides an entry to that tumultuous period in Irish history

Man of No Property History Trinity in the eighties wasIn the spring of 1924 I was released from internment where I had been held for a year since the end of the Civil War in what was then the Irish Free State. I was a little over twenty two years of age. So begins this extraordinary memoir, in which C. S. (Todd) Andrews gives a personal history of his varied and distinguished career in public service to the Irish state. The early chapters cover what were, for Andrews and his fellow republicans, difficult