Prophet Song
Prophet SongPaul Lynch
Characters in Prophet Song
8 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Eilish Stack
Dublin scientist and mother of four who tries to hold her family together as Ireland collapses into authoritarian rule.
Supporting characters
Larry Stack
Eilish's husband, a teachers' union leader who is arrested and disappears early in the novel.
Mark Stack
The eldest Stack child, who joins the resistance rather than flee the country.
Bailey Stack
A younger Stack son whose death is one of the novel's central tragedies.
Molly Stack
A Stack daughter who withdraws emotionally as conditions worsen.
Simon (Prophet Song)
Eilish's elderly father, a fellow scientist whose encroaching dementia gives him unsettling moments of clarity about the crisis.
Maeve (Prophet Song)
A member of an underground network that smuggles people out of Ireland.
Minor characters
Ben Stack
Eilish's infant son.