The rebels of Ireland

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A sweep through the past 4 centuries of Irish history, woven around a family saga. Very readable and credible accounts of the historical events, although some of the fictional characters are a bit far fetched at the end of the tale, to round up the whole thing. It answers a lot of questions about the complexity of "THE IRISH QUESTION", and you can see modern day parallels to recent post-colonial efforts by other countries. A long book but a good read.

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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.

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Other Editions

• The rebels of Ireland: the Dublin sagaDistributed by Random House2006-01-01
• The Rebels of IrelandAudio CassetteRandom House Audio2006-02-28
• The Rebels of IrelandAudio CDRandom House Audio2006-02-28
• The Rebels of IrelandDoubleday Canada2006-02-28
• The Rebels of IrelandDoubleday2006-02-28
• The Rebels of IrelandRandom House Large Print2006-03-14