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Book SynopsisWalter Macken was born in Galway in 1915. He was a writer of short stories, novels and plays. Originally an actor, principally with the Taibhdhearc in Galway, and The Abbey Theatre, he played lead roles on Broadway in M. J. Molloy's
The King of Friday's Men and his own play
Home Is the Hero. He also acted in films, notably in Arthur Dreifuss' adaptation of Brendan Behan's
The Quare Fellow. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy of Irish historical novels
Seek the Fair Land,
The Silent People and
The Scorching Wind. He passed away in 1967.
Trade ReviewTold with pity and poetry and an impartiality almost unnatural in an Irishman writing of those seven desperate years. * Catholic Herald *
The long tale of terror and bravery, the arrests, the burnings, the ambushes, the reprisals is told with the deftness of a professional storyteller. * Irish Press *
