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Title	:	Through the Barricades
Author	:	Denise Deegan
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 356 pages
Published	:	December 6th 2016
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. Fiction. European Literature. Irish Literature

Through the Barricades Kindle Edition | Pages: 356 pages

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She was willing to sacrifice everything for her country. He was willing to sacrifice everything for her

'Make a difference in the world, ' are the last words Maggie Gilligan's father ever says to her. They form a legacy that she carries in her heart, years later when, at the age of fifteen, she tries to better the lives of Dublin's largely forgotten poor.

'Don't go getting distracted, now, ' is what Daniel Healy's father says to him after seeing him talking to the same Maggie Gilligan. Daniel is more than distracted. He is intrigued. Never has he met anyone as dismissive, argumentative . . . as downright infuriating.

A dare from Maggie is all it takes. Daniel volunteers at a food kitchen. There, his eyes are opened to the plight of the poor. It is 1913 and Dublin's striking workers have been locked out of their jobs. Their families are going hungry. Daniel and Maggie do what they can. Soon, however, Maggie realises that the only way to make a difference is to take up arms.

The story of Maggie and Daniel is one of friendship, love, war and revolution, of two people prepared to sacrifice their lives: Maggie for her country, Daniel for Maggie. Their mutual sacrifices put them on opposite sides of a revolution. Can their love survive?

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Through The Barricades is an Irish based historical fiction.The prologue opens in 1906, a house fire. Maggie Gilligan's father gets her to safety out of a bedroom window. His last words to her are "Make a difference in the world, Maggie".Chapter one begins in 1913, Dublin. It is seven years after her father's death. Maggie meets Daniel and Michael, two boys who help her with a flat bicycle tyre. They talk of trouble in the city, strikers are causing riots, Maggie fiercely defends them to the



It is a rare gift when a book captures your attention from the very first line, and holds you in its grip until the very last. Through the Barricades delivered on that rarest of gifts, and kept me at the edge of my seat as my heart soared, and ached, and I laughed, and cried with Maggie and Daniel. True to her exquisite talent of creating characters that will steal your heart every single time, Denise Deegan effortlessly draws you in to the world of Maggie and Daniel, and you can't help but fall

THROUGH THE BARRICADES by Denise Deegan is by far my favourite book of 2016. Through the hypnotic characters of Maggie Gilligan and Danny Healy, not only do we get to see an important moment in Irish history come alive in front of our eyes, we also get to understand the harrowing life that so many lived back then, and the undeniable strength and spirit of those that changed the face of Ireland forever. But this is not just a history lesson. This is a story about love and friendship. I fell in

Through the Barricades by Denise Deegan is an excellent piece of Irish Fiction; Keeping me reading until the wee hours of the morning.Author Denise Deegan delivers an all-around amazing story that is complete with an engaging plot and a well-developed cast of characters; playing vividly in my mind like a movie. I cried, I laughed, and then I cried some more as the book progressed.Furthermore, as a born and raised Canadian, I felt that I learned a bit about Irelands history. I mean, I knew that

"Through the Barricades" by author Denise Deegan is a terrific book of romantic historical fiction and I truly loved it! I was grabbed from the very first page of this very powerful, emotional and gripping book. Set in Ireland between 1913-1916 and focusing on the Irish Revolution and the Easter Rising, the attention by the author to historical detail was second to none. The harrowing descriptions of life for the men on the beaches of Gallipoli and the violent deaths many men suffered had tears

Really easy read. Writing style was simple and made the pages fly by. I'm partial to historical fiction and I liked learning more about the Irish struggle against British rule. I grew up in UK which means I often heard about the IRA as terrorists without really hearing enough about the plight and the history of the movement. I've heard about the 1916 Easter rising all my life, and I grew up when the IRA and Sinn Fein were active. In 1997, there was an IRA bombing in Manchester. I remember