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The Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Saga - tekijä: Edward Rutherfurd
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The Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Saga

- tekijä: Edward Rutherfurd

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Teoksen nimiThe Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Saga
TekijäEdward Rutherfurd
Arvio***1/2
Avainsanatread, historical novel, novel, fiction, ireland, irish, hist novel, hist fiction, historical fiction 
Oma arvosteluHonestly, this book probably deserves a 4-star rating, but my expectations of Rutherfurd are higher than most hist. fiction authors, based on hist terrific "London" and "Sarum" .

"Rebels" is the sequel to his "Princes of Ireland", but you don't have to read "Princes" to fully enjoy this work. Together, they form "The Dublin Saga". Note that these works appear under other titles ("Dublin: Foundation" and "Ireland: Awakening" are, I believe, "The Princes of Ireland" and "The Rebels of Ireland", respectively).

Rutherfurd's works read like several short novels tied together by family threads as he moves through history, so don't let the size put you off. You can read about a three families in late 1700s Ireland, set it aside for awhile, and then pick it up later to read about their descendants in the early 1800s. However, once you've started, you probably won't want to set it aside.

Rutherfurd does his usual splended job of presenting well researched history from the viewpoint of totally plausable fictional families and individuals. Historical characters move through these stories, and historical events drive them. And all the while, you develop a personal interest in what happens to these people and how their progeny turn out. The connections between generational stories seemed a bit more forced than in his best work, making the narrator as history teacher a bit more obvious. But this is a small complaint compared to the epic tale he has to tell, and the importance of the historic events that unfold in this novel. You'll see why the "Irish" Irish felt as they did about the English; why the English felt as they did about the Irish, and how the "English:" Irish and "Irish" English (not to mention the Scots-Irish) covered the spectrum from revolutionary to merchant to aristocrat to ruler. And through the lives of these families, you'll see that a simple "Protestant" vs "Catholic" explanation of the troubles in Ireland doesn't come close to explaining the hows and whys of the last 300 years of Ireland's relationship with England and it's own peoples.
JulkaisutiedotDoubleday (2006); Hardcover; Edition 1st-stated; 888pp
Julkaisuaika2006
ISBN0385512899 / 9780385512893
Kongressin kirjaston luokitusPR6068.U88 R33
Deweyn luokitus823/.914 22
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PääkieliEnglish
Alkuteoksen kieliEnglish
Hankintapäivä2007-08-09
Kirjan lukeminen aloitettu2008-07-21
Kirja luettu2008-08-25
YhteenvetoThe Rebels of Ireland: The Dublin Saga by Edward Rutherfurd (2006)
Kommentitpaper, gilt stamped on paper
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