Forge Books
February 2015
On Sale: February 3, 2015
Featuring: Nora Kelly
512 pages ISBN: 0765329131 EAN: 9780765329134 Kindle: B00LRWIDUO Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
It's 1903. Nora Kelly, twenty-four, is talented, outspoken,
progressive, and climbing the ladder of opportunity, until
she falls for an attractive but dangerous man who sends her
running back to the Old World her family had fled. Nora
takes on Paris, mixing with couturiers, artists, and "les
femmes Americaines" of the Left Bank such as Gertrude Stein
and Sylvia Beach. But when she stumbles into the
centuries-old Collège des Irlandais, a good-looking scholar,
an unconventional priest, and Ireland's revolutionary women
challenge Nora to honor her Irish blood and join the
struggle to free Ireland.
Author Mary Pat Kelly weaves historical characters such as
Maud Gonne, William Butler Yeats, Countess Markievicz,
Michael Collins, and Eamon de Valera, as well as Gabrielle
Chanel, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Nora Barnicle, into
Of Irish Blood, a vivid and compelling story inspired
by the life of her great-aunt.