BismillahirRahmanirRahim
This book covers over 300 years of Irish-English political history through a loosely strung together series of episodes that revolve around one very extended family. It's different in that most of the personal stories are not resolved, but are left off at a point where the Irish story moves on. This was disconcerting at first, but made a lot of sense after I got used to it. Personal stories often don't finish in life, but the tribal story continues. Rutherford did actually tie the family story all together satisfactorily at the end. I am looking forward to reading (hopefully listening to) Princes of Ireland.