The Rape of Virgin Munchindun
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“ Right fellahs, Let’s finish off this fucking job right and proper. Bring in the petrol.” Three of the terrorists carried in a five-gallon drum of petrol. They drenched Pete’s dead body, the lounge, the kitchen, and the bedrooms liberally with the potent liquid. The four withdrew from the house and the leader tossed a lighted match back in through the door. The house exploded with a whoosh into an inferno of flames. “ Fellahs Let’s finish off the Lake House and rid Munchindun of all traces of the Englishman Clarendon.” The four terrorists drove up the drive to the Lake House. They smashed windows and poured petrol inside the building. The leader tossed a lighted match inside and the Lake House too became a raging inferno. Their night of murder and arson completed the terrorists drover off. In this way the final disaster visited Munchindun in the parish of Tober. In this way the dynasty of Lord Clarendon and his Donovan entourage was brought to an end. The flames crawled into the night sky and devoured the Royal Flag of Ireland on the Gate Lodge. The grey crows that had been the archenemy of the Donovan’s for generations rose with hoarse caws of alarm from the sturdy oaks that framed the Lake House. Clouds of this vermin rose from their rooky perches into the night sky and their drowsy wings blackened out the harvest moon. Their menace and evil were now in the ascendancy. The evil birds were now free to pillage the nests of birds that sang the sweet delicious song of the lark, the thrush, the blackbird, the robin and the wren, their evil unchecked by a Donovan gun and each evil bird placing the silence of death over the parish. But their victory of evil was not total. Below on the moors the stalwart forest established by Les and Pete and by the dint of backbreaking work by workmen, had taken root. It would grow to flourish as a memorial to them both and as a testimony to goodness and sweet reason On both sides of the border scarring the moor, the forest had put down its roots and was pressing towards the sky The trees would grow tall and the border would be smothered in a unified forest stretching from Tyrone to Donegal and didn’t know division. The cause of the conflict would in time become a meaningless painful memory of murder, sectarianism, bigotry and hatred and of a futile violence that achieved nothing.
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This book is set in the heartland of
Les Hamilton is a young protestant man who came to Munchindun to establish a forest. He meets up with a young unemployed penniless son of a gamekeeper called Pete Donovan and the two men fall in love. Les transforms Pete’s life and the life of the parish.
The relationship between the two men is bitterly opposed by a nurse Mary Mc Menamin who was originally the girl friend of Pete. Her hatred of the two men and her involvement in the paramilitary politics of hate secraranism and bigotry drive her to commit the murder of Les. Mary is put on trial for murder and on the testimony of Pete she is sentenced to life imprisonment for murder.
IN retaliation against Pete f or giving evidence to a British court the I.R.A. sentence him to death and have him shot.
In the wider field the novel is set against a background of violence and unrest in
Michael Gillespie
About the Author
The author is Michael Gillespie. He is in his sixties and is married with four of a family but is now divorced. He lives by himself in Derry in
He has already published a successful novel with Authorhouse Titled ---THE WAY IRELAND OUGHT TO BE – This novel was set in a psychiatric clinic in
It may be felt that there is peace in
In taking up writing and leaving teaching his intention was to write a trilogy of novels on the Irish problem. THE RAPE OF VIRGIN MUNCHINDUN is the second novel of the trilogy. This novel deals with sectarianism. The third novel of the trilogy will be called –SIZE MATTERS – and will deal with the Irish problem in a humorous way.
As well as writing novels the author maintains an extensive blog on the Irish problem at: - www.blogstoday.co.uk/irishproblemsolved.blog which is read as far afield as
He also contributes letters to the national and local press in
Michael Gillespie B.Ed B.Sc( Econ) Dip Ed D.A.S.E. M.A, (Ed)