BOOK REVIEW: "There is no present or future - only the past, happening over and over again - now." That is a line from Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten." In 1976 celebrated author Leon Uris published his powerful 751-page novel "Trinity," set in Ireland between the period of the famine of the 1840s and the Easter Rising of 1916. Per the author, much background research went into his work which gives voice to the generations of Catholic hill farmers in Donegal fighting for survival against the harshness of the land and the injustice in their lives. His novel also attempts to give us insight into the times and events from the perspective of families of the British aristocracy, who ventured to Ireland to conquer, colonize and exploit. Also portrayed are the lives of devout Belfast shipyard workers whose Scottish-Presbyterian ancestors were planted in Ulster to secure the Crown's interests. "This is his Trinity, the oil and water of the Irish epic that would never mix, their interrelations of love and hate in a terrible and beautiful drama spanning over half a century." You should be able to find a copy in your local library if the subject interests you.