I'm glad I read the book, but not certain I could read the sequel without some seriously uplifting music playing in the background. Still, the style is rather simplistic (Irish Catholics: good! Irish Protestants and the British: bad!) and the book drags on from one injustice to another, leading up to what can only be a bad ending for our hero - and it's almost a relief when it's over. I'm glad I read it, if only to get a glimpse into the effects of the British Industrial revolution on their Irish subjects, and the ongoing political oppression that leads to the beginning of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Trinity by Leon Uris and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. This type of approach may not bother many readers, but I found it disconcerting, like the author couldn't make up his mind how best to present it all. Then, he's out of the story line and we're back to the tale recounted in third person. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Trinity by Leon Uris 1976 Leather Book The Franklin Library at the best online prices at eBay Free shipping for many products Skip to main content. Uris goes from telling his tale from first to third person, then back again as it seems to suit - whenever the protagonist's best buddy is around to pick up the narrative, we hear it all through him for a certain number of pages. Some of the characters are drawn better than others, and there are large portions of the story that were very entertaining. It spent 21 weeks atop The New York Times Best Sellers list in 1976 and 14 weeks in 1977. This book offers up an interesting time in history in a country not given much thought aside from silly-jolly St. Trinity is the story of Conor Larkin, an Irish Catholic from a tenant farming family who becomes embroiled in the political situation of Ireland around the turn. Trinity is a novel by American author Leon Uris, published in 1976 by Doubleday.