ABOUT
THE BOOK

For Eneas McNulty, a happy innocent childhood in County Sligo in the early 1900s gives way to an Ireland wracked by violence and conflict. Unable to find work in the depressed times after World War 1, Eneas joins the British-led police force, the Royal Irish Constabulary – a decision that alters the course of his life. To those intent on winning freedom from eight hundred years of British oppression, Eneas has unwittingly committed an act of betrayal. Branded as a traitor and marked for death, Eneas is forced to flee his homeland, his family, and Viv, the woman he loves. Pursued by an assassin chosen to kill him, his childhood friend and IRA enforcer Jonno Lynch, Eneas travels the world seeking to escape his fate. Through peacetime and wartime, loneliness and friendship, he is ever unable to reclaim his stolen life, yet he persists through his vicissitudes with a tragic grace. Written with passion and a tender wit, The whereabouts of Eneas McNulty is the story of a lost man and a compelling saga that illuminates Ireland’s heart-breaking and complex history.