As if mixing leprechauns and menehune together in a genetic experiment, Bob Dye explores Irish and Hawaiian cultures in his new comic novel, 'Humble Honest Men,' debuting in Hawaii bookstores this Saturday.

The book follows character Kapala Dolan as his fascination with the Irish half of his hapa haole ancestry — and the family lore that placed his maternal grandparents on the Lusitania as it sank off the coast of Kinsale — leads him to jump at the chance to consult for the town whose city fathers seek to make the Lusitania as successful a tourist attraction as Pearl Harbor’s Arizona Memorial.

Bob Dye also authored “Merchant Prince of the Sandalwood Mountains: Afong and the Chinese in Hawai”i. A frequent contributor to Honolulu Magazine, he also edited three volumes of Hawai'i Chronicles and wrote an occasional political column for The Honolulu Advertiser.

Humble Honest Men is priced at $15.95 in softcover local bookstores.