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The rebels of ireland Dublin Saga, Book 2

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 ...

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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 ..."@en
  • "Follows the lives and destinies of several Dublin families, both Catholic and Protestant, from all strata of society, from the sixteenth-century colonization of Ireland by the English to the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922."
  • "Después de la buena acogida de la destacada novela Príncipes de Irlanda, que relata los acontecimientos más significativos de la vida de Irlanda hasta el siglo XVI, Edward Rutherfurd continuúa su narración. La presente obra nos conduce desde 1597 hasta las primeras décadas del siglo XX, a través de la vida cotidiana de generaciones de diversas familias, cuyo devenir estará marcado por la convulsa vida social y política de la Irlanda de esta época."
  • "Continues the history of Dublin and Ireland from 1534."@en
  • "Traces the lives of several Dublin families from all strata of society, Protestant and Catholic, rich and poor, conniving and heroic."@en
  • "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. 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 O'Connell and the tragic Parnell, the glorious Irish cultural renaissance of Joyce and Yeats, and finally, the triumphant founding of the Irish Republic in 1922."
  • "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."
  • "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."@en
  • "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. 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 glorious Irish cultural renaissance of Joyce and Yeats, and finally, the triumphant founding of the Irish Republic in 1922."@en
  • "The saga of Ireland's 400-year path to independence told through the lives of individuals."

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  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"

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  • "Rebels of Ireland : the Dublin saga"
  • "The rebels of ireland Dublin Saga, Book 2"@en
  • "The rebels of Ireland"
  • "The rebels of Ireland"@en
  • "The Rebels of Ireland"@en
  • "The rebels of Ireland Dublin Saga, Book 2"@en
  • "Rebels of Ireland"@en
  • "The rebels of Ireland the Dublin saga"@en
  • "The rebels of Ireland : the Dublin saga"
  • "The rebels of Ireland : the Dublin saga"@en
  • "The Rebels of Ireland : the Dublin Saga"@en
  • "Rebeldes de Irlanda"
  • "Rebeldes de Irlanda"@es

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