Great travel writing by the Anglo-Irish author of the Fortunes of War series. NOtably free from sentiment and 'whims', the book deals with the Ireland of today..here and there are interspersed anecdotes and legends such as the story of Graine O'Malley, the Battle of the Starlings at Cork in 1621, evocations of Yeats at Sligo.
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