Audio Book Description:
The saga begins in tribal,pre Christian Ireland during the reign of the fierce and mighty high kings at Tarawith the tale of two lovers the princelyConall and the ravishing Deirdre, whose travails cleverly echo the ancient Celtic legend of Cuchulainn. From that stirring beginning, Rutherfurd takes thereader on a powerfully imaginedjourney down the centuries. Through the interlo-cking stories of a memorable cast of characters, we see Ireland through thelens of its greatest city. While vividly and movinglly conveyingthe passions and struggles that shaped the character of Dublin, Rugherfurdportrays the major events in Irish history: the tribal culture of pagan Ireland; the mission of St Patrick; the coming of the Vikings and the foundingof Dublin; the glories of the great nearby monastery of Glendalough and the making of treasures like the Book ofKells; the trickery of Henry IIwhich gave England its first foodhold inmedieval Ireland. The stage is then set for the great conflict between the Englishkings and the princes of Irelandand the disastrous Irish invasion of England, wbhich incurred the wrath of Henry VIII, andwhere this book the first of the two part Dublin Saga, drawsto a close, as teh path of Irish historytakes a dramatic and irrevocable turn.
