Name Upon Name

Belfast in 1916. Fourteen-year-old Helen is shaped by her mixed background – rural, Catholic Irish values from her mother; urban, Protestant Ulster values from her father. Helen’s older cousins are her idols: Sandy, who joined the army straight from school and has already seen action in France, and Michael, who runs away from home to enlist. But before he leaves for France, Michael is deployed to Dublin to help quell the Rising, where he’s expected to open fire on his fellow Irishmen, and Sandy writes home about terrible things on the front. What exactly are they fighting for?

O when may it suffice?

That is Heaven’s part, our part

To murmur name upon name …

Perfect class novel for the 1916 centenery by multi award-winning author Sheena Wilkinson.

‘History is rarely clean and simple; the beauty of this book is that it embraces that complexity.’ – Dr Patrick Geoghegan, Professor of History at TCD and presenter of Newstalk’s Talking History.