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Out Of Ireland

Out Of Ireland

Summary

A leader of the Young Ireland rebellion of 1848, Robert Devereux is an Irish gentleman who is prepared to hazard a life of privilege in the fight for his country's freedom.

Transported to Van Diemen's Land as a political prisoner, he enters a life that greatly changes him, falling in love with a young Irish convict woman.

Through Kathleen O'Rahilly he comes to know the people he's long romanticised; but his cause, and the life he has lost, will not let him go.

Reviews

  • These novels (Out of Ireland and Highways to a War) will surely become Australian classics
    Robert Gray, The Australian's Review of Books

About the author

Christopher Koch

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