Finding Dan

About the Book

Finding Dan is part historical fiction, part genealogical detective story. IRA man Daniel O’Rourke was the most dangerous man in Dungannon; Mal is his great-nephew, determined to find the real man behind the tales told by his family. This is a legend of evasion from arrest, internment on a diseased ship, and hunger strike; it is the legend too of glories on the Gaelic football pitch and a life spent on the run from the police and from the women who might have loved him. As Mal’s search deepens, Ireland’s troubled history interferes and a new legend of Dan emerges.

About the Author

Mark Quinn was born in Northern Ireland in 1968 at the start of the troubles that would afflict that corner of the world for the next thirty years. He grew up mainly in the quiet provincial town of Ballymena, before moving to Belfast to study history at Queen’s University. He has taught in Gdansk and in London, where he now lives with his wife and two children. Finding Dan is his second novel.