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The White Cockade
First published 1970
Seventeen-year-old John Regan undertakes a mission left to him by his dying father as Ireland moves towards the rebellion of 1798. Secret societies, government repression and the United Irishmen turn an adolescent journey into a political test in which loyalties can be fatal and private honour cannot be separated from revolution.
Cordell writes the first John Regan novel as an adventure for younger readers while keeping the rebellion’s sectarian, military and social tensions visible. Regan must learn whom to trust in a country divided between revolutionary hopes and the power of the Crown. The story introduces a trilogy in which personal courage develops alongside an understanding of why ordinary people were willing to risk execution and war for political change.
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