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This is a novel of the new Irish revolution -of money and expensive cars and towering office blocks among the Georgian slums. And of what this revolution has done to I reland and the I rish, a country and a people torn out of the nineteenth century and thrown into the 1970s in a dozen bewilderingly brutal years. It is the story of the Developers against the Preservers -the old against the new: but in a conflict clouded by human emotions and weaknesses. It tells of Francis O Rourke, a fighting bull of a man, whose vision of concrete, glass and stainless steel rising out of the dirty hovels of Dublin brought a storm of protest from its inhabitants and Auld Ireland Preservers. From Lady Honoria who, with the enormous, if unwilling wealth of the Gandon family behind her, also had a vision - that of herself as the uncrowned queen of Dublin. From Father Tracey, the dedicated rebel priest. And, unintentionally, from smooth TV commentator John Lennox who brought both sides together for a confrontation but found he could not remain impartial. CRY OF MORNING is about the real I reland and its folk, -behind the legends, behind the headlines, about a country that is in the process of awakening, and a people striving for progress yet fearful of change -this is the Republic of Ireland today.
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