Further, Uris nails the perspectives of the oppressed and the oppressor, along with doing a superb job of putting the reader directly into the heart of Ireland at that time. The depiction of some of the decayed aspects of religion, specifically within catholicism, is chilling in accuracy. Trinity put me through the widest range of emotions of any piece of writing I've ever consumed. I'm not sure how this story seems to have been passed on by so many. The other prominent viewpoints are from that of a few royalty-class Protestants bent on continuing the subjugation of the Irish at the hands of the British. The story is told from the perspective of multiple people, but primarily from the lens of two Irish Catholic boys from a small village. In my own words, Trinity is the story of Irish Catholic suffering ranging from the potato famine all the way to the start of WW1. As indicated in the title, I finished Leon Uris' 1976 Irish historical fiction this morning.
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