Eureka Street is a novel by Northern Irish author Robert McLiam Wilson, published in 1996 in the UK (1997 in the US), it focuses on the lives of two Belfast friends, one Catholic and one Protestant, shortly before and after the IRA ceasefire in 1994.

[1] Eureka Street concerns two working-class Belfast men who, despite being Catholic and Protestant respectively, are friends.

United by their inability to form mature relationships, they struggle to find love and stability in bomb-torn Belfast.

He usually displays shock at his own talent for making money and often acts in ways that, despite his wealth, reveal his poor upbringing.

He falls in love with an American woman named Max who becomes pregnant with his child.

Despite his rough exterior and job as a repo-man and a construction worker, Jake is a sensitive romantic who is heart broken after his English girlfriend, Sarah, leaves him.

He has many run-ins with Aoirghe, an extremely Irish Republican who is under the misconception that Jake had been a victim of police violence.

After a violent protest injures Roche, she is verbally attacked by Jake but eventually they become romantically involved.

After her father's death, Max ran away from home and lived a wild lifestyle of drugs and sex.

She eventually lived with her grandparents who calmed her down enough that she began to attend college at UCLA.