A top-secret Irish unity plan spirals into chaos
Career diplomat Fiach O’Bric expects a quiet retirement, until he is landed with an impossible job: preparing for a United Ireland. With civil service chaos, endless rows over symbols and a sense history might throttle him, he starts to wonder if he can do the unthinkable.
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A top-secret Irish unity plan spirals into chaos
Career diplomat Fiach O’Bric expects a quiet retirement, until he is landed with an impossible job: preparing for a United Ireland. With civil service chaos, endless rows over symbols and a sense history might throttle him, he starts to wonder if he can do the unthinkable.
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Can 26 + 6 ever be made to = 1?
Meet Fiach O’Bric: career diplomat, recent widower, and a man looking forward to a peaceful retirement. But just when he thinks he’s out, he is persuaded to take over a top-secret department tasked with preparing for a United Ireland — the ultimate impossible job.
Running a civil service department staffed with oddballs, timesavers and a die hard nationalist from Dundalk, Fiach finds himself refereeing endless arguments about flags, anthems, guns for gardaí, the location of the new parliament — and don’t even mention the national anthem.
Fiach can feel the hand of history on his shoulder. He suspects it may soon throttle him. Yet, against his better judgement — and all available evidence — a dangerous thought takes hold. What if he could be the one to do what Padraig Pearse, Wolfe Tone and centuries of Irish martyrs failed to do: make Ireland one, and somehow not die in the process.
Dream on, Fiach.
‘Our nation’s greatest satirist’ Irish Times
- About The Author
- Paul Howard is a journalist, author and comedy writer best known as the creator of the No 1 bestselling Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series. He has won a record four Irish Book Awards and is a former Irish Sports Journalist of the Year and Irish Newspaper Columnist of the Year.
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- ISBN
- 9781844886906
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Sandycove, (27 August 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 368
- Weight
- 700 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 x 40 mm
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