A star called Henry
By: Roddy Doyle.
Series: The last roundup ;
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Revolutionaries -- Fiction; Guerrillas -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction; Ireland -- History -- Easter Rising, 1916 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Born in the slums of Dublin in 1901, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing, begging, often cold, always hungry, but a prince of the streets. At fourteen, already six foot two, Henry's in the General Post Office on Easter Monday 1916, a soldier in the Irish Citizen Army, fighting for freedom. A year later he's ready to die for Ireland again, a rebel, a Fenian and soon, a killer.

With his father's wooden leg as his weapon, Henry becomes a republican legend - one of Michael Collins' boys, a cop killer, an assassin on a stolen bike."--BOOK JACKET.