![]() ![]() ![]() This tale of courage, love, cruelty and treachery, one of the great legends of Ireland, receives vivid, evocative treatment here. A thousand civilians and soldiers set out but, harassed at every turn by those seeking the price on O'Sullivan's head and tormented by fierce winter weather and by hunger, only 34 men and one woman survive. When this work opens a year later, a chieftain from the south, Donal Cam O'Sullivan of the now destroyed fortress town of Dunboy, has resorted to the desperate expedient of leading his people across a hostile Ireland to seek safety with loyal clans far to the north. ![]() including such international bestsellers as Lion of Ireland, Red Branch, Druids. ![]() Others, led by Hugh O'Neill, held out during the Nine Years' War until the final defeat at the Battle of Kinsale in 1602. Morgan Llywelyn Since 1978 Morgan Llywelyn, who lives north of Dublin. When Elizabeth I sent her forces to the Catholic country to guard against attempts to retake the British Isles for Rome, her commanders used bribery and threats to coerce some nobles to swear fealty to the English throne. This powerful partisan novel by the author of Druids recounts the aftermath of the last concerted attempt by Celtic nobility in Ireland to throw off English domination. See all books authored by Morgan Llywelyn, including Lion of Ireland, and 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion, and more on. ![]()
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