The King of Castletown

By Len Clark

"The King of Castletown" tells the story of John O'Boyle, a self-proclaimed tour guide who organizes stays for American tourists in his Irish hometown. O'Boyle is a fraud and goes to great lengths to make the tourists' dreams of tracing their Irish ancestors come true, with the help of the town's people. The novel follows several characters, including Dr. Tom Courtney, a journalism professor at Notre Dame who is developing a course for students to be taught at the nearby Connemara Abbey, and Ellen Sullivan, a reporter for the Dublin Telegraph who reluctantly accepts an assignment to do a feature story on Irish tourism in the town after O'Boyle is spotlighted on a popular US television program. As Sullivan begins to suspect something is amiss in Castletown and investigates with the help of Dr. Courtney, the story takes on a mystery and suspenseful tone. Along the way, we also meet Tim, an American tourist who is part of the tour group and is mostly seen in Fitzgerald's Pub, Bryan Jones and Leah Gilbert, Notre Dame fans obsessed with finding former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz, who is part of an alumni golf tour in County Rockall, and Anna O'Shea, an elderly woman from Chicago with a terminal illness who has traced her ancestry back to Castletown and wants to see her ancestors' land before she dies. The investigation of the story will test Ellen's journalism ethics and relationship with her new friend, Dr. Tom Courtney.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BTCN6WCK
• ISBN13: 9798375445403
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"