num_pages: 487
description: Offers a portrait of an adventuresome Irishman named Henry Smart, an IRA assassin and 1916 Easter Rebellion fighter, from his Dublin birth to his adulthood, when he becomes the father of a young rebel.
language: English
title: A Star Called Henry
titlecomplete: A Star Called Henry
characters: Victor Smart, Edward VII, Arthur Griffith, Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, Mr Costello, Piano Annie, Cathal Brugha, Miss O'Shea, Dolly Oblong, Henry Smart, snr., Thomas Patrick Ashe, Maria Climanis, Melody Nash, Ivan Reynolds, Dick McKee, Granny Nash, Éamon de Valera, Henry Smart, David Climanis, Michael Collins, Countess Markievicz, Alfie Gandon
genres: Fiction, Ireland, Historical, War, School, Literature, Novels, Irish Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 9396
places: Ireland, Dublin
series: The Last Roundup
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc