Dublin Saga The Rebels of Ireland, Book 1, (Paperback)

from marient

Cromwell, the Famine, W. B. Yeats, and the women of the Easter Rising-Rutherford brings Irish history to life through tales of families whose fates rise and fall in each generation.

from dougwood57

Rutherfurd's Rebels of Ireland completes his two-volume epic saga of Ireland. The emerald isle posed a challenge for Rutherfurd, who normally sweeps across thousands of years in a single volume. The Rebels of Ireland is unusual in that it commences quite late in the day - 1534 and continues throu...

from LTFL_JMLS

Really like this one! I feel like I know much more about Ireland and its history now. I want to get his earlier book, the Princes of ireland, and read it too.

from maryreinert

Basically another history of Ireland as told through the story of several families (the same families that began with the "Princes of Ireland"). Irish, English, Catholic, Protestant, Presbyterian, all get muttled together; there are never completely clear lines of who is opposing who and who is s...

from santhony

I've read all of Edward Rutherfurd's work and have enjoyed it all. However, I'm convinced that Rebels of Ireland is his best effort to date. In trying to ascertain why this may be, I have come to the conclusion that the condensed time frame captured by the book (around 300 years as opposed to the...