Description

Created in the Dublin slums of 1901, his father an one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of ratings, Henry Smart needs to develop quickly. From the time he could walk heis frequently chilly and pleading, out taking and usually starving, but a king of the streets. By Easter Monday, 1916, he is fourteen yrs old and currently six-foot-two, a soldier in the Irish Citizen Army. Annually later he is prepared to die for Ireland again, a rebel, a Fenian and a monster.