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The reigning master of grand historical fiction returns with the stirring conclusion to his bestselling Dublin Saga.
The Princes of Ireland, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurd’s magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disappearance of the sacred Staff of Saint Patrick. The Rebels of Ireland opens with an Ireland transformed; plantation, the final step in the centuries-long English conquest of Ireland, is the order of the day, and the subjugation of the native Irish Catholic population has begun in earnest.
Edward Rutherfurd brings history to life through the tales of families whose fates rise and fall in each generation: Brothers who must choose between fidelity to their ancient faith or the security of their families; a wife whose passion for a charismatic Irish chieftain threatens her comfortable marriage to a prosperous merchant; a young scholar whose secret rebel sympathies are put to the test; men who risk their lives and their children’s fortunes in the tragic pursuit of freedom, and those determined to root them out forever. Rutherfurd spins the saga of Ireland’s 400-year path to independence in all its drama, tragedy, and glory through the stories of people from all strata of society--Protestant and Catholic, rich and poor, conniving and heroic.
His richly detailed narrative brings to life watershed moments and events, from the time of plantation settlements to the “Flight of the Earls,” when the native aristocracy fled the island, to Cromwell’s suppression of the population and the imposition of the harsh anti-Catholic penal laws. He describes the hardships of ordinary people and the romantic, doomed attempt to overthrow the Protestant oppressors, which ended in defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, and the departure of the “Wild Geese.” In vivid tones Rutherfurd re-creates Grattan’s Parliament, Wolfe Tone's attempted French invasion of 1798, the tragic rising of Robert Emmet, the Catholic campaign of Daniel O’Connell, the catastrophic famine, the mass migration to America, and the glorious Irish Renaissance of Yeats and Joyce. And through the eyes of his characters, he captures the rise of Charles Stewart Parnell and the great Irish nationalists and the birth of an Ireland free of all ties to England.
A tale of fierce battles, hot-blooded romances, and family and political intrigues, The Rebels of Ireland brings the story begun in The Princes of Ireland to a stunning conclusion.
The Princes of Ireland, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurd’s magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disappearance of the sacred Staff of Saint Patrick. The Rebels of Ireland opens with an Ireland transformed; plantation, the final step in the centuries-long English conquest of Ireland, is the order of the day, and the subjugation of the native Irish Catholic population has begun in earnest.
Edward Rutherfurd brings history to life through the tales of families whose fates rise and fall in each generation: Brothers who must choose between fidelity to their ancient faith or the security of their families; a wife whose passion for a charismatic Irish chieftain threatens her comfortable marriage to a prosperous merchant; a young scholar whose secret rebel sympathies are put to the test; men who risk their lives and their children’s fortunes in the tragic pursuit of freedom, and those determined to root them out forever. Rutherfurd spins the saga of Ireland’s 400-year path to independence in all its drama, tragedy, and glory through the stories of people from all strata of society--Protestant and Catholic, rich and poor, conniving and heroic.
His richly detailed narrative brings to life watershed moments and events, from the time of plantation settlements to the “Flight of the Earls,” when the native aristocracy fled the island, to Cromwell’s suppression of the population and the imposition of the harsh anti-Catholic penal laws. He describes the hardships of ordinary people and the romantic, doomed attempt to overthrow the Protestant oppressors, which ended in defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, and the departure of the “Wild Geese.” In vivid tones Rutherfurd re-creates Grattan’s Parliament, Wolfe Tone's attempted French invasion of 1798, the tragic rising of Robert Emmet, the Catholic campaign of Daniel O’Connell, the catastrophic famine, the mass migration to America, and the glorious Irish Renaissance of Yeats and Joyce. And through the eyes of his characters, he captures the rise of Charles Stewart Parnell and the great Irish nationalists and the birth of an Ireland free of all ties to England.
A tale of fierce battles, hot-blooded romances, and family and political intrigues, The Rebels of Ireland brings the story begun in The Princes of Ireland to a stunning conclusion.
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78 of 80 people found the following review helpful
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The epic scope of Edward Rutherfurd's Dublin Saga is impossible to contest. Its first volume, The Princes of Ireland, covered the first 11 centuries of the island's proud and bloody history. This stand-alone sequel covers Ireland from the revolt of 1534 to the 1922 creation of the Irish Free State. Only a master of the historical novel of Rutherfurd's caliber could render this 400-year story with such clarity, accuracy, and a sense of scale. His portraits of people at every level of Irish society offer glimpses of Catholic and Protestant, rich and poor, caught up in the merciless maelstrom of history. Rutherfurd wraps up The Dublin Saga-begun with The Princes of Ireland-with a new work that takes us from the Irish revolt of 1534 to the 1922 triumph of the Irish Free State.
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I was disappointed that when I received the book I discovered that it had already been published under the title of "Ireland Awakening" which I already had. There was no indication of this in the details of the book. I also purchased the Princes of Ireland and again discovered that this also had been published under the title "Dublin" Where books have been published under another title the details of the alternate titles should be included.
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Having read the PRINCES OF IRELAND I felt it only necessary that I read the sequel. How much more enjoyable was this book to me! As a previous reviewer once wrote, the book traces the fight of many of the Irish people (particularly Catholics) for political and religious freedom from England. As a Catholic myself and as a Lithuanian-Catholic this book became particularly meangingul to me. The Lithuanian people, like the Irish, were for years oppressed by the occupiers of their land. In our case the Russians tried to create conditions where the native-born Lithuanians would forget how to speak their very old and noble Lithuanian language. It was so heartening to read that the Irish Catholics, like the Lithuanians, forbidden by the powers-that-be to educate their children nonetheless took it upon themselves secretly to do so keeping the Gaelic language alive and staying true to their Catholic faith. I myself visited Ireland once in 1999 and attended Catholic mass in Howth just outside of Dublin. I will never forget the passion the priest who offered the mass had nor his statement that "To be Catholic meant one thing. To be IRISH Catholic quite another." The Irish people, like the Lithuanians, Poles and a number of other nationalities were persecuted by their Protestant (or atheist) bretheren yet they sustained themselves and survived. THE REBELS OF IRELAND is a testimony to the strength and passion of the Irish people, their ability to survive adversity and to persevere. I found the book, therefore, to be especially inspiring. Erin Go Braugh! (or in my case Tegyvuoja laisva Lietuva!"
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