The Last of the High Kings

Set during the summer of Punk in Howth, a small fishing town in North County Dublin, The Last of the High Kings is a coming-of-age comic novel that tells the story of 17 year old Frankie Griffin as he tries to deal with his eccentric family, including his outrageous Republican mother and laid-back Bohemian father. 
First published in 1991, New Island bring this Modern Irish Classic back to life.
The Last of the High Kings was made into a Hollywood movie starring Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Rea and Christina Ricci in 1996.
‘Ferdia Mac Anna has that gift so rare: the ability to write humour.  And in this, his first novel, he turns it to good advantage … a perceptive, funny and often quite touching novel’ Irish Independent 

•    Another addition to the Modern Irish Classics;
•    The Irish Classics series includes acclaimed authors such as Walter Macken and Mary Lavin.