The Rebels Of Ireland: The Dublin Saga,New

Product Description 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 Centurieslong 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 Early17Thcentury Flight Of The Earls, When The Last Of The Irish Aristocracy Fled The Island; Oliver Cromwells Brutal Oppression And Confiscation Of Lands A Halfcentury 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 Anticatholic 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. Review Praise For The Bestselling Novels Of Edward Rutherfurdthe Princes Of Ireland:A Giant, Sprawling, Easytoread Story Told In James Michener Fashion. Maeve Binchya Sweeping, Carefully Reconstructed Portrait Of A Nation . . . Leaps Through The Centuries. New York Timesspellbinding . . . [A] Pageturning Dublin Saga . . . Rutherfurd Does A Magnificent Job Of Packaging A Crackling Good Yarn Within The Digestible Overview Of Complex Historical Circumstances And Events. Booklistlondon:Remarkable . . . Grand. New York Timeshold Your Breath Suspense, Buccaneering Adventure, And Passionate Tales Of Love And War. The Times (London)Fascinating . . . A Sprawling Epic. San Francisco Chroniclea Tour De Force . . . Breathtaking. Orlando Sentinelsarum:Bursts With Action, Encyclopedic In Historic Detail . . . Supremely Well Crafted And A Delight To Read. Chicago Tribunea Richly Imagined Vision Of History, Written With Genuine Delight. San Francisco Chroniclerusska:An Example Of How A Skillful Historical Novelist Can Illumine The Present By Dramatically Recreating The Past. Houston Chroniclerutherfurd Literally Personifies History. New York Daily Newsthe Forest:As Entertaining As Sarum And Rutherfurds Other Sweeping Novel Of British History, London. Boston Globethe Forest Is Michener Told With An English Accent. St. Louis Postdispatchfrom The Hardcover Edition. Excerpt. Reprinted By Permission. All Rights Reserved. Plantation1597 Octor Simeon Pincher Knew All About Ireland. Doctor Simeon Pincher Was A Tall, Thin, Balding Man, Still In His Twenties, With A Sallow Complexion And Stern Black Eyes That Belonged In A Pulpit. He Was A Learned Man, A Graduate And Fellow Of Emmanuel College, At Cambridge University. When He Had Been Offered A Position At The New Foundation Of Trinity College In Dublin, However, He Had Come Thither With Such Alacrity That His New Hosts Were Quite Surprised. I Shall Come At Once, He Had Written To Them, To Do Gods Work. With Which Reply, No One Could Argue. Not Only Did He Come With The Stated Zeal Of A Missionary. Even Before His Arrival In Ireland, Doctor Pincher Had Informed Himself Thoroughly About Its Inhabitants. He Knew, For Instance, That The Mere Irish, As The Original Native Irish Were Now Termed In England, Were W