MATT CONNELL: against a sea of troubles, a novel of Ireland, tells of Connell's search for peace, emerging love for Sheena McDonagh, and his adventure leading a 1985 peace march. A throwback revolutionary, Jim O'Grady, stuns Matt Connell with lethal opposition Matt had never imagined. The men meet at the summit of Croagh Patrick, the holy mountain; later, bullets fly. Ireland's tragic partition provides the scope of this novel whose deeper meanings are, nonetheless, universal. Among troubles revealed, there is love, assassination, war, justice, and then something salutary or punishing with almost cosmic implications. The theme is of seeking peace when it eluded the Irish people--and in the theme's larger sense--the meaning of peace for humanity.