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A carregar... 1921 : The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War (Irish Century) (edição 2002)por Morgan Llywelyn
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The Irish fight for independence is one of the most captivating tales of the twentieth century. Morgan Llywelyn, the acclaimed historical writer of books likeLion of Ireland, BardandThe Horse Goddess, is the writer born to bring this epic battle to life. Having created an entire body of work chronicling the Celts and Ireland, she now turns to recent Irish history to create a multivolume saga:The Irish Century. 1921tells the story of the Irish War of Independence and the heartbreaking civil war that followed. Henry Mooney, a reporter for theClare Champion and theIrish Bulletin, is a self-described "moderate nationalist" who struggles to see the truth in the news of the day, and to report it fairly. Lacking more radical Republican beliefs of his dear friends Ned Halloran and Sile Duffy, Henry reports the political--and later, bloody--actions of his fellow Irishman from the ashes of the failed 1916 Rising to the creation of the Irish Free State to the tragic and wide-ranging battles of the Irish Civil War. Meanwhile, Henry feels the impact of these history-changing events in his own personal life. His friendship with Ned falters when their political beliefs diverge, and an unexpected tragedy leaves them further apart than ever. Henry struggles with his passion for a well-bred Protestant Anglo-Irish woman, Ella Rutledge, and as he dutifully reports the events in the political battle for independence, he comes to realize that the Irish struggle for freedom wil leave no life untouched--and no Irish citizen with a dry eye or an untroubled heart. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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 Google Books — A carregar...GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia: (4.14)
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I found this really hard to get into, and some of the issues I had with the first book were present in this one as well: namely, the sex scenes, which I felt were unnecessary and embarrassing when I was reading this on the bus. And the dialogue felt more info-dumpy than I remember the first book’s dialogue feeling. I’m not sure whether the change in attitude was governed by change in format (the first book was a mass market paperback, whereas the second was a trade paperback) or personal circumstances (I’ve been really distracted and tired this month) or just having had my reading taste change dramatically in two years (I read the first book in 2016).
I’ll have to think carefully about whether I want to continue the series, or whether I should just get a non-fiction book about 20th-century Ireland instead. And now I’m looking suspiciously at my copy of Llywelyn’s Finn MacCool… (