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. It is the story of Earth and her elements, and of the men and women whose. 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, internationally acclaimed author of 1916 and Lion of Ireland, returns with a powerful fantasy saga that sweeps from the dawn of history to our own near future. 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. (Feb.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. Llywelyn's fine treatment is a tribute to man's survival, personal growth, and resilience in the face of anarchy.

Rootless Dinas, ambitious and passionate, is a 'eader, warlord, wild man,' who recruits his own warriors he dreams of kingship, but becomes a pirate and mercenary. Cadogan, thoughtful and steady, becomes a reluctant leader with 'unasked-for responsibilities,' shepherding urban refugees to the forest after their town was burned by Saxons. Each man seeks freedom and order within a collapsed society. Her international bestsellers like Lion of Ireland (1980), Red Branch (1989). Llywelyn's narrative follows dissimilar cousins, Cadogan and Dinas, brave, resolute men transformed by hardships caused by larger historical forces. Morgan Llywelyn, aka Shannon Lewis, who is an exemplary writer of. However, many of post-Roman Brittania's civil servants had only 'a veneer of Latin sophistication' to go with a Celt's 'impetuous temperament.' They struggled to govern without Roman leadership violent Saxon warriors, Picts, and Scoti took advantage of the leadership vacuum, resulting in lawlessness, violence, and death.

410, the Roman army deserted Brittania (modern-day Great Britain), leaving behind an organized central government, educated elite, and a culture that mimicked Roman fashion, food, architecture, and education.

Irish author Llywelyn (The Horse Goddess) presents an exceptional novel of 5th century Brittania, weaving impressive historical detail with enlightened and evolving characters. Red Branch Morgan Llynwelyn, Author, Morgan Llywelyn, Author William Morrow & Company 19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-6-9 The rich trove of the Red Branch literature, the heroic Irish.

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