![]() Before his death, Sands is said to have memorised whole chapters of Trinity and recited them each night to his fellow IRA inmates. Of all his books, Uris said he was most fond of Trinity, his 1976 fictionalised account of Ireland in the early years of the last century and the Rising, in part because of the story of Bobby Sands. ![]() ![]() It was translated into more than two dozen languages and was made into a 1960 movie starring Paul Newman. His first blockbuster and best-known work was the 1958 novel Exodus, which told the story of the birth of the modern nation of Israel. Leon Uris: Leon Uris, a high-school drop-out who found huge success as the author of panoramic novels that made history his main character, died on Saturday of congestive heart failure at his home on New York's Shelter Island. ![]()
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