1014: Brian Boru & the Battle for Ireland

By Morgan Llywelyn

Book Overview

Brings the Battle of Clontarf to life as Never Before, Vicious hand-to-hand fighting with state-of-the art weapons took place in the swamps of Dublin a thousand years ago in a fight to control Ireland, once and for all. More than a confrontation between the Gael and Norse, it embodied a complex mix of loyalties, with Gael and Norse on both sides. With a novelist's sense of narrative and a historian's sense of accuracy, Llywelyn constructs the most accessible account ever of this famous battle. She untangles the intricacies of the Irish chieftaincy and inheritance systems, the interconnections between families, the conflicts that led to the battle. She draws, in vivid detail, the extraordinary characters who occupied the Norse world - and how they met on various sides in this famous and decisive battle. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847175570
• ISBN13: 9781847175571
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: O'Brien Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.8"