The Shannon Shark

King Charles 1 is dead and still the English Civil War blights parts of England. Cornet Mountifort Westropp of Colonel Twisleton’s Regiment of Horse is called upon again, this time to quell the Leveller Mutinies of 1649. The Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell has decided to punish the Catholics and Royalists in Ireland for their atrocities against the English Protestant settlers during the 1641 uprising. Westropp is part of a great invading New Model Army which lands in Dublin to secure Munster for Parliament as a first step to subdue the whole island. The campaign includes capturing Drogheda and Wexford before the march on Limerick. Westropp returns to life in the West of Ireland, initially suppressing the remnants of the Royalist and Confederation Irish around the River Shannon. As Comptroller of the Port of Limerick, his future looks assured – until the armies of the Duke of York and King William meet on the banks of the River Boyne. Will his life’s work as a soldier and administrator be for nought?