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The rebels of Ireland, Edward Rutherfurd

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The rebels of Ireland

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Edward Rutherfurd

Dublin saga, bk. 2

Edward Rutherfurd's 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 Elizabeth's 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 Cromwell's 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

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