The Rebels of Ireland (133 page)

Some years later, when Mrs. Rosa Budge passed to her next life, the Rathconan estate was sold. Sometimes new owners of such estates would find the local people a little shy with them. They have learned, after all, to guard against strangers coming to dwell upon their land. It is a lesson learned down many centuries. But the new owner of Rathconan, with her flashing green eyes and her husband and children was always welcome from the first. After all, Caitlin belonged there.

 

PHOTO: © JEANNE MASOERO

E
DWARD
R
UTHERFURD
was born in Salisbury, England, and educated at Cambridge University and Stanford University in California. His bestselling novel
Sarum
is based on the history of Salisbury and Stonehenge.
Russka,
his second novel, recounts the sweeping history of Russia.
London
tells the two-thousand-year story of the great city, bringing all of the richness of London's past unforgettably to life. His novel
The Forest
is set in England's ancient New Forest. His last novel,
The Princes of Ireland,
is the companion to
The Rebels of Ireland,
covering the first eleven centuries of Ireland's history. Edward Rutherfurd divides his time between Dublin and New York.

 

ALSO BY EDWARD RUTHERFURD

Sarum

Russka

London

The Forest

The Princes of Ireland

 

Praise for

EDWARD RUTHERFURD

New York Times
bestselling author

“Edward Rutherfurd has written about Dublin with love. [A]n expertly researched…and highly readable account of a place he has grown to know well…a giant, sprawling, easy-to-read story told in James Michener fashion.”

—M
AEVE
B
INCHY
, on
The Princes of Ireland

“Leaps through the centuries…a sweeping, carefully reconstructed portrait of a nation.”

—The New York Times

“Spellbinding…[a] page-turning Dublin saga…Rutherfurd does a magnificent job of packaging a crackling good yarn within the digestible overview of complex historical circumstances and events…. Ambitious in scope, teeming with a huge cast of finely drawn and realized characters, and dripping with authentic historical detail, [this] eminently readable narrative will satisfy the appetites of discerning historical fiction aficionados.”

—Booklist

“The closest thing we've got to a James Michener successor.”

—The Seattle Times

“This sweeping sequel to
The Princes of Ireland
displays the same successful Rutherfurd formula…a swiftly moving narrative that deftly blends historical facts with a novelist's imagination.”

—
Calgary Herald

 

Copyright © 2006 Edward Rutherfurd
Anchor Canada edition 2007

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Rutherfurd, Edward
The rebels of Ireland / Edward Rutherfurd.
(The Dublin saga)
eISBN: 978-0-307-37147-8
1. Ireland—History—Fiction. I. Title. II. Series: Rutherfurd, Edward Dublin saga.
PR6068.U88R42 2007   823'.914   C2006-906466-0

The Rebels of Ireland
is a work of fiction. Though some characters, incidents, and dialogues are based on the historical record, the work as a whole is a product of the author's imagination.

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