Stephen Finlay Archer

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Featured ~ Book 7: ASUNDER ~ Available in March

The Clans are wrenched asunder by the Irish Civil War, while they seek to unravel an ancient religious mystery that has confounded civilization for centuries.

Morgan and Tadgh support Michael Collins’ Provisional government as they search for the prize to save the O’Donnell treasure with jealous Jack.

Aidan and his new wife, Marjorie, fight on despite the efforts of Tadgh and Morgan to stop them.

The descendant Barbary Pirates and Templars clash in their pursuit of the Clans to seize the omnipotent prize.

This book will be launched and available on Amazon prior to my attendance at #AWP25 in Los Angeles, March 26-29, 2025. See you there.

ARC Review — Asunder
Daniel Horwood: Book Seven picks right up from Book Six as the excitement continues. Once again I am caught up in the intrigue and can’t put it down. Reading the first book hooked me on the entire series. Not only am I being entertained, but I am also learning some Irish history as well. Bring on Book eight.
Bob Kolakowski: Another display of incredible suspense. Asunder moves closer to the ultimate finish we’ve all been waiting for. Reads like a Leon Uris novel

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Author Reputation Press is no longer my marketing agent. I am now handling this complex aspect of my literary journey myself with assistance from other three support companies. This is the most challenging road in my literary journey, a path through dangerous tangled woods with many fierce-some predators.

I have modified the covers for my novels by expanding the image to fill the cover to improve reader appeal at a thumbnail level. I ran a competition with my subscribers and over eighty percent of the respondents prefer the new cover designs. You will see them throughout this website now. I hope you like them.

You will be happy to know that the last novel in THE IRISH CLANS series, Book Eight: REVELATION is written and the hands of my editor. I expect it to be published by the end of 2025!

I will be attending three book conferences in the near future this year,

  1. the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival  March 5 -7,
  2. the 2025 AWP Conference and Bookfair in Los Angeles March 26-29,
  3. the Historical Novel Society North America Conference in Los Vegas June 26-28

I hope to see you there!

 

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Book 1: Searchers

Book 2: Entente

Book 3: Rising

There will now be eight novels in the Irish Clans series. The tragic split of families due to the Irish Civil War coming on the heels of the Anglo-Irish Treaty compromise that separated British Northern Ireland from the new Republic of Ireland necessitated a more thorough treatment in Book Seven: Asunder, resulting in the need for Book Eight: Revelation to complete the Civil War and treasure hunting story. Happy reading.

Novels in the Irish Clans Series

The Irish Clans

is an epic story immersed in the tumultuous Irish revolutionary period of 1915 through 1923, while the world is embroiled in the Great War and its aftermath. The once mighty McCarthy and O’Donnell Clans, overthrown in ancient times, are not extinct. They are linked on two continents by a medieval pact entwining military history and religious mythology. Divine intervention plays a pivotal role in unearthing the secrets of the Clans’ treasure and heroic exploits. The patriotism and passion of Celtic heritage lies at the heart of this intriguing story.

Tetralogies
A tragedy at sea sets in motion the search for life’s true treasures, both in 1915 Ireland, when the funeral of Fenian Rossa fans the flames of revolution, and in America, where the clans begin a journey toward their destiny in Searchers, the first book of the series.

Published March 2016.

The mysteries of an ancient Clans Pact deepen beneath the horrors of WWI as Irish Rebels march toward revolution in Entente, the second book in the series.

Published May 2017.

Irish Republican martyrs rise against overpowering British forces to spark the revolution in the 1916 Easter Rising, while the Clans search for unity and treasure to honor the Clans Pact of their ancestors in Rising the third book in the series.

Published January 2019.

In the aftermath of the Easter Rising, the Clans seek the McCarthy treasure as Collin searches for his missing sister in McCarthy Gold, the fourth book in the series.

Published January 2020.

While fighting for Irish freedom, the McCarthys suffer brutal consequences of the merciless British oppression in the early years of the War of Independence in Revolution, the fifth book in the series.

Published March 2022.

The mysteries of the O’Donnell Clan are explored under tragic circumstances in the last year of the Irish Revolution’s War of Independence upheaval in Fortunes, the sixth book in the series.

Published September 2023.

The Clans, fractured at the start of the Irish Civil War in 1922, follow the ancient clues in an attempt to recover the O’Donnell Treasure they have lost, in Asunder, the seventh book in the series.

Anticipated publication March 2025.

The Clans, while supporting the Irish Civil War in 1922–1923, seek to unravel and unearth an ancient religious mystery that has confounded civilization for centuries in Revelation, the eighth and final book in the series.

Anticipated publication end of 2025.

The Irish Clans Rise Again!

Stephen Finlay Archer: Irish Historical Novelist

 

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