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The year is 1916 and Britain is in danger of losing the war for want of ammunition. In Southern Scotland a gigantic munitions factory is being built by thousands of Irish navvies . In Ireland trouble is brewing and armed rebellion against British rule is imminent. Michael Quinlan, a coachman, is laid off due to the war and joins the men building the factory. He sees this as a way of helping his son fighting in Mesopotamia where the shortages are particularly bad. With another son, James, he becomes inadvertently involved in an Irish rebel plot to sabotage the factory and, from the ordered existence of a coachman he is trust into a world of plots and counter-plots.
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