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"A SWEEPING, CAREFULLY RECONSTRUCTED PORTRAIT

OF A NATION ... LEAPS THROUGH THE CENTURIES."

- T h e Ne w York Times

Bril l iant ly weaving impeccable his todca l research with st irr ing story

telling , Edward Rutherfurd explores o u r shared Celtic roots in a mag

ni f i cen t epic o f I re land spanning eleven centuries . While vividly

conveying th e passions an d stt'uggles that shaped particularly the charac

te r of Dublin , Ruther fur d portrays th e major events in Ir ish history : th e

tribal cul ture o f pagan Ireland ; the mission o f Saint Patrick; the coming

o f th e Vikings; th e making' o f treasures like th e Book of Kells ; and th e

trickery o f Henry II . which gave England it s first foothold in medieval

I re land . T h r o u g h th e in te r lock ing s to r ies o f a memorable cast o f

charac te rs -dru ids an d chieftains . monks an d smugg1ers . nob lewomen

an d farmwives. laboret 's and orphans . rebels an d cowards -Ruther fu rd

captures th e essence of a place an d its people in a thr i l l ing StOl'y steep e d

in th e tragedy an d glot ,y that are Ireland .

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YO U HA D IN HIGH S C H O O L . . . . While high kings, con

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fict ional merchants, craftsmen, chieftains, and soldiers affected by

their actions that make us care about th e history."

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" S P E L L B I N D I N G . . . [A ] PA G E - T U R N I N G D U B L I N

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digestible overview of complex historical circuIIlstances and events."

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N E W Y O R K T I M E S BE STS EL LER

EDWARD R U T H E R F U R D

Author o f The Princes of Ireland

"Sp r awling . sweeping . . . ThinkJames Michener . " - N ews d qy

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"Riveting .. . [a ] powerful saga .. . Set against t h e dram.ati c backdrop of I r i sh political history, [The Rebels o f Ireland]

re visit s family dy n a sties such as th e Walshes and th e Doyl es, whose epic voyages through the centurie s continu e r ight up to the

twentieth,century 's Easter Ri ing and Indep e nd en ce."

- Th e Irish P os t

Cromwell , th e Famine ,W. B. Yeats, and th e women o f the Easter

Rising - E d w a r d Rutherfurd br ings Irish history to life through th etales of famil ies whose fates rise and fall in each genera t ion: brothers

who mus t choose between f idel i ty to the i r ancient fai th and the secu

rity o f the i r families; a wife whose passion fo r a charismatic Irish

chieftain threatens her comfortable marriage to a prosperous mer

chant; a young scholar whose secret rebel sympathies are pu t to

the test; m en who risk the i r lives and the i r children's fortunes in the

tragic pursui t o f freedom, and those de te rmined to exterminate th e

rebels once and for all. Through th e stories o f people from al l strata

of socie ty-Protes tant and Catholic, r ich and poor, conniving and

hero ic -Ruthe r fu rd spins the saga o f Ireland's four-hundred-yearpath to independence in al l it s drama, tragedy, and glory.

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