β Scribed by Rutherfurd, Edward
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EDITORIAL REVIEW:
Edward Rutherfurds stirring account of Irish history, the Dublin Saga, concludes in this magisterial work of historical fiction. Beginning where the first volume, **The Princes of Ireland**, left off, **The Rebels of Ireland** takes us into a world transformed by the English practice of plantation, which represented the final step in the centuries-long British conquest of Ireland. Once again Rutherfurd takes us inside the process of history by tracing the lives of several Dublin families from all strata of society Protestant and Catholic, rich and poor, conniving and heroic.From the time of the plantations and Elizabeths ascendancy Rutherfurd moves into the grand moments of Irish history: the early-17th-century Flight of the Earls, when the last of the Irish aristocracy fled the island; Oliver Cromwells brutal oppression and confiscation of lands a half-century later; the romantic, doomed effort of The Wild Geese to throw off Protestant oppression at the Battle of the Boyne. The reader sees through the eyes of the victims and the perpetrators alike the painful realities of the anti-Catholic penal laws, the catastrophic famine and the massive migration to North America, the rise of the great nationalists OConnell and the tragic Parnell, the glorious Irish cultural renaissance of Joyce and Yeats, and finally, the triumphant founding of the Irish Republic in 1922.Written with all the drama and sweep that has made Rutherfurd the bestselling historical novelist of his generation, **The Rebels of Ireland** is both a necessary companion to **The Princes of Ireland** and a magnificent achievement in its own right.*From the Hardcover edition.*
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: *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 Rutherfurdβs magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disap
EDITORIAL REVIEW: *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 Rutherfurdβs magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disap
EDITORIAL REVIEW: *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 Rutherfurdβs magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disap
EDITORIAL REVIEW: \*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 Rutherfurds magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the
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 Rutherfurdβs magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disappearance of the sacred S
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 S