num_pages: 778
description: Brilliantly weaving impeccable historical research with stirring storytelling, Edward Rutherfurd explores our shared Celtic roots in a magnificent epic of Ireland spanning eleven centuries. While vividly conveying the passions and struggles that shaped particularly the character of Dublin, Rutherfurd portrays the major events in Irish history: the tribal culture of pagan Ireland; the mission of Saint Patrick; the coming of the Vikings; the making of treasures like the Book of Kells; and the tricks of Henry II, which gave England its first foothold in medieval Ireland. Through the interlocking stories of a memorable cast of characters–druids and chieftains, monks and smugglers, noblewomen and farmwives, laborers and orphans, rebels and cowards–Rutherfurd captures the essence of a place and its people in a thrilling story steeped in the tragedy and glory that are Ireland.
language: English
title: The Princes of Ireland
titlecomplete: The Princes of Ireland (The Dublin Saga, #1)
genres: Audiobook, Ireland, Historical, Historical Fiction, Adult Fiction, Fantasy, Adult, Epic, Irish Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 16237
series: The Dublin Saga
publisher: Ballantine Books