The story of William and Paul continues into early 1915 with new torments and challenges to their friendship. It’s a time of hard choices and inevitable tragedy as World War 1 rages on and preparations are being made that will instigate the reshaping of Ireland. In the Glenelly Valley, the impacts are felt deeply and divisively.

In The Blossom or the Bole Book 2, Pheme Glass continues the story of diverging political forces on the rural communities in the Sperrin Mountains during the First World War. The factual history continues within the context of County Tyrone newspaper articles of the time chronicling the local activities of the Ulster Volunteer Force and Irish Republican Brotherhood. This is a moving, candid tale of life immediately before the partition of Ireland and the creation of Northern Ireland. Paperback.