Status Updates From The Rebels of Ireland (The ...

Ouf! Ce l’ho fatta! Lungo, decisamente lungo. Si le cose da raccontare erano tante ma a volte mi sono persa. Le vicissitudini dei vari personaggi non mi hanno sempre presa ma la storia dell’indipendenza irlandese, a me sconosciuta, è stata molto interessante! Direi trama 2 stelle, storia 4 stelle.

Always loved Edward Rutherford’s storytelling but it’s slowly dawning on me that I have, in fact, already read this one. Obviously many years ago, as I really don’t remember what happens, but as I’m reading I have a definite sense of familiarity. At least it’s a great book!

Always loved Edward Rutherford’s books and this one is no exception so far.
Not sure why my progress isn’t updating for this book though. Very strange

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Omg I thought I had just read too many romances recently but they actually GOT MARRIED

I'm really embodying the panik/kalm meme listening to the Potato Famine chapters 💀

Jdhsns
Leverage The Bottle Shot vibes

I've never heard of anyone named Georgianna that wasn't cool AF

Genuinely hilarious to me that I started hating Cromwell after reading Twilight because I wanted to do research about Carlisle's past.

Stephanie Meyer has possibly had a greater effect on my life than any person I know in real life.

Genuinely I don't understand why so many Christian sects moved away from good works. Like legit good works.
Because if you just like Jesus but you don't do good shit why should you go to heaven??? Like in Judaism if you're a piece of shit you're out of luck. But if you're an atheist who's an amazing, caring, helpful person it's all good.

Happy to see parents haven't changed - confiscating your kid's horse like it's car privileges 😂😂

Also CW for ableism and slurs against Down Syndrome

Iconically Irish:

> goes to mass
> escorts Protestant to church
> leaves to go to the pub
> escorts Protestant home after church

ULSTER COUNTY WHOOOOO!! 😍🥳💖

I got 15% and can’t deal with this book. DNF

And this book is dragging along. I’m quite sick of hearing about the Catholics vs. Protestants. Again.

This is the longest book in the world and so far there hasn’t been even one female character driven by something other than 1) getting married 2) having children or 3) cheating on her husband. The narrative *is* an effective way of learning Irish history though. Will continue trudging along

Das Buch liest sich extrem gut. Jede freie Minute wird genutzt. Sehr spannend. 😁

scrapped

Chapter 15

Great saga

“And yet, in that colder season, even the gentle Wexford countryside seemed to have changed, as though the troubles of Ireland, like chill winds, were exposing under the green fields and groves another landscape that was bleak and harsh.”

“Mr. Benjamin Franklin was making his first visit to Ireland.”

“Dublin, after London, would soon be the most gracious European capital in the north.”

“Dublin certainly was a pleasant city—so long, of course, as you were a member of Ireland’s ruling elite. And even if my dear brother is not, Fortunatus reflected, that is what I am. A handsome city, too. For in Dublin, at least, the Protestant Ascendancy over Ireland was expressed in bricks and mortar.”

“The fate of Ireland will be decided by men not a single one of whom gives a damn about her. That is her tragedy.”

“But no political body, since the days when the Roman Empire had made Christianity the state religion, had ever supposed that a man’s church could be a purely private matter, of no business to anyone but himself. The idea was shocking both in its novelty and its blinding simplicity.”

“A man’s religion is a matter of personal conscience,” they said. “Why should we force the Irish to be Protestants?”

“For centuries to come it would be portrayed as either a mass, nationalist uprising of the Catholic people against their Protestant oppressors, or else as a wholesale massacre of innocent Protestants. It was neither.”