Author: Roddy Doyle

Format: Medium Softcover

Condition: Very Good

A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle

Born in the slums of Dublin in 1902, his father a one-legged bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast.

By the time he can walk he’s out robbing, begging, charming, 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, a lover.