Following the critically acclaimed success of Dublin this riveting sequel takes the story of Ireland from the seventeenth century onwards picking up at the Reformation & with it the devastating arrival of Oliver Cromwell Cromwell heralds the inauguration of two hundred years of Protestant dominance throughout which many of the Irish people were impoverished & dispossessed Dublin is made a Protestant capital & Catholics become an underclass Set against the dramatic backdrop of Irish political history this powerful saga is brought to its conclusion Journeying through the centuries right the way up to the twentieth century's Easter Rising & Independence passing through turbulent milestones such as The Year of the French the Famine & The Home Rule Movement of Parnell along the way