large Irish influence, and eventually makes his way to America. By March 16, 1924, Henry reaches Ellis Island, and sets up a new life in America. However, Henry remains haunted by his past. Over the course of the novel, Henry is forced to flee from New York City all the way to Chicago. There, he meets a young man playing the trumpet by the name of Louis Armstrong. Because segregation is all too alive in the city, Armstrong needs a man - a white man - to become his personal guard. Henry's fighting days may not be over . . . Key Plot Points: Henry remains hunted by the IRA, even as he escapes into England, and even America. Once in New York, Henry takes up bootlegging as well as sandwich board advertising. In Chicago, Henry meets Louis Armstrong, as well as Henry's long lost family. Henry & Louis make their way back to New York, and eventually work with "Olaf's Half-Sister" Henry is finally caught by those who've always kept an eye out for him, the surviving IRA. Henry and family journey into the western Dustbowl, just at the Great Depression begins. Henry loses his family (and his leg) after failing to catch a freight train, and searches for them throughout the 1930s and 1940s, following the rumors and campfire tales left in their wake. Aliases: Henry Glick (homonymous with glic, Gaelic for cunning, clever, smart) Henry Dalton (a reference to the deceased Jack Dalton of the IRA) Henry S. (actually Henry S. Smart, his full name, but merely known as this in Chicago) Henry O'Glick (On the run in the West, during the Great Depression) One Leg O'Glick (On his own during his stay in the many Hoovervilles he lived in) Volume III: The Dead Republic (2010) In the final volume, an ageing Henry Smart attempts to cement his reputation. John Ford plans a movie based on Henry's life, but Henry eventually realizes the film that Ford has planned will reduce his story to sentiment. Henry plans to kill Ford, but his callousness has faded, and he drifts into the Dublin suburbs, where he meets a respectable widow who may possibly be his long-disappeared wife. Henry ages in obscurity until the 1970s, when the Provisional IRA uses a distorted version of Henry's story as a public relations ploy. Historical appearances Many characters in The Last Roundup are, in