Julia’s Reviews > Trinity > Status Update

"What the hell do you want, man?" Atty snapped, "Your daddy, Tomas Larkin, or a potato-faced Orange Grand Master for a father? If we acted like them, we'd become like them. Is that what you want? We're Irish, messed up, superstitious, and unorganizable...but, by God, you don't see any poets coming out of Ulster."

"Oliver Cromwell MacIvor, who had no true program of his own other than that of a vulture feeding on a diseased carcass, outdid them all in a battle to keep the working class divided."
How relatable...

"Within their relationship they had found some carnal desperation but never happiness." Been there, done that.

When is the "beautiful and valiant Protestant girl" promised to us in the book jacket description going to show up?? Also just realized she wasn't given a name, how 1977 publication of this print 😒 At least Caroline gets a mention by name (as she should).

"Let me assure you just as earnestly that, once he gets his teeth into power, you're going to find him dangerous. He'll have the mob in his pocket and there will be nothing you we can do about it. You go along with him on now because you think it's for the good of Ulster. Frankly, I think you're flirting with the Devil." -Roger Hubble, sounding spookily relevant to today...

This book is such a slow burn and yet I am totally hooked?? This usually doesn't happen!