Ireland Awakening by Edward Rutherfurd

Ireland Awakening (Century 2006 Trade Paperback Irish Historical Saga)

The Sweeping Sequel to Dublin: Foundation, Following Irish Families from Cromwell to the Easter Rising

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Ireland Awakening: Awakening
• Author: Edward Rutherfurd
• Publisher: Century, London
• Publication Date: 2006
• ISBN-13: 9781844138128
• ISBN-10: 1844138127
• Edition Details: Published in London by Century, 2006. Trade softcover issue.
• Binding: Publisher's illustrated paperback wrappers, glossy laminated cover with a sepia photograph of Dublin harbour.
• Physical Format: Large softcover (trade paperback), roughly 235 x 155 mm.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Good (G)
• Exterior / Wraps: The glossy laminated wrappers show light wear to the spine and edges. There is visible creasing and light cracking to the cover lamination on the spine and near the fore-edge of the front cover, and the spine carries several vertical stress lines. The page block edges are cream and toned.
• Interior: The text pages are clean and legible, cream in colour, with no foxing or markings seen. The binding is tight for so thick a volume, with a slight crease along the spine.
• The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)

Synopsis & Historical Value

Ireland Awakening is the second and concluding volume of Edward Rutherfurd's Dublin Saga, following Dublin: Foundation. It opens in the age of the Reformation and Cromwell's arrival, when Dublin becomes a Protestant capital and the Catholic majority is pushed into an underclass.

Rutherfurd follows several families across the generations: the O'Byrnes, MacGowans, Doyles, Walshes and Tidys, together with the Catholic Smiths and the Presbyterian Laws and Budges. Their fortunes carry the reader through the Ascendancy, the Famine, the Easter Rising and the birth of the Irish Free State, with figures such as Yeats and Joyce appearing along the way.

A broad, richly populated historical novel, this is a collectible used copy for readers of Irish history and of Rutherfurd's multi-generational sagas.

Author Profile: Edward Rutherfurd

Edward Rutherfurd is the pen name of Francis Edward Wintle, born in Salisbury in 1948. He was educated locally and at the universities of Cambridge and Stanford, and worked in political research, bookselling and publishing before turning to fiction.

After leaving the book trade in 1983 he wrote Sarum, which was published four years later and became an international bestseller. His other novels include Russka, London, The Forest, New York and Paris, as well as the two Irish novels, Dublin: Foundation and Ireland Awakening. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages.

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