Library Journal Review: Well known for his sweeping historical novels (London), Rutherfurd has been called Michener with a British accent. His stories are packed with meticulous detail, flowing story lines, swashbuckling action, and believable characters deftly woven among those of historical record. Beginning with Elizabeth's ascendancy to the English throne and the plantation period of the English conquest of Ireland and ending with the founding of the Irish republic in 1922, this sequel to Princes of Ireland vividly tells the history of Irish suppression through the lives of ordinary people on both sides of the turmoil. It is a story of bitter and tragic contrast. Rutherfurd casts the Irish, thought to be savages by England's Protestant elite, against a backdrop of a vibrant, intellectual Dublin, deeply divided by religion and politics yet aglow with the literary renaissance of Yeats, Shaw, and Joyce. Highly readable, this latest retelling of the Irish quest for freedom is a worthy addition to the large body of popular Irish histories. Recommended for all fiction collections.?Susan Clifford Braun, Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, CA Copyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.