New Island Books

Introduction by Prof Margaret MacCurtain. Commemorating 100 years since the dedication of the Oratory of the Sacred Heart, Ireland’s miniature gem of Celtic Revival Art.

It's June 1941. Paul Duggan, a young Irish military intelligence officer is on a secret mission to Portugal to uncover German intentions towards neutral Ireland and, even more secretly, to find out who had informed the Americans of an Irish Minister's undiplomatic comments while in Lisbon on his way to Washington to plead for arms.