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{{Short description|1995 novel by Leon Uris}}
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{{Infobox book
| image             = RedemptionUris.jpg
| author            = [[Leon Uris]]
| isbn              = 978-0060183332
| pub_date          = 1995-01-01
| name              = Redemption
| country           = United States
| publisher         = [[HarperCollins]]
| media_type        = Print ([[hardcover]])
| preceded_by       = [[Trinity (novel)|Trinity]]
| pages             = 848
}}

'''''Redemption''''' (first published 1995) is a novel by author [[Leon Uris]].  It is a sequel to his epic 1976 book, ''[[Trinity (novel)|Trinity]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Duffy |first=Malachy |title=In short: Fiction |date=2 July 1995 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/02/books/in-short-fiction-078695.html |access-date=8 February 2024}}</ref>

Set mainly in the first half of the twentieth century in the years leading to the [[Ireland|Irish]] [[Easter Rising]], it tells the stories of the Irish revolutionary [[Conor Larkin]]'s family, his brothers Liam and Dary, and Liam's son Rory.

After emigrating from [[Ireland]] to [[New Zealand]], Liam establishes his own dynasty and sets to repeat the same cycle of conflict with his own sons as his father, Tomas.

Rory becomes a [[World War I]] war hero in the [[Battle of Gallipoli|Gallipoli campaign]]. Rory's uncle Dary takes Catholic clerical vows, only to have a powerful love drive him to question both celibacy and his calling.

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[[Category:1995 American novels]]
[[Category:HarperCollins books]]
[[Category:History of Ireland (1801–1923)]]
[[Category:Novels by Leon Uris]]
[[Category:Novels set during World War I]]
[[Category:Novels set in New Zealand]]
[[Category:Sequel novels]]
[[Category:Works about the Gallipoli campaign]]


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