Ireland : A Terrible Beauty

Jill Uris and Leon Uris

03-28-23

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03-28-23

Abridgement

Unabridged

Genre

Nonfiction/History

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Jill and Leon Uris came to Ireland looking for answers. Why was Ireland bled by one internal war after another? How can one country contain such greatness and grief? What they discovered was more than the Ireland of peat fires and pubs, of fabled Irish wit and the haunts of the banshees. What they found was a people—trapped in mutual mistrust, but with a courage and kindness that brought them through centuries of bitter occupation and civil dissension, in a land as complexly beautiful as the people themselves. This then is the Urises’ “love song” to the Irish and to Ireland.

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Language English
Release Day Mar 27, 2023
Release Date March 28, 2023
Release Date Machine 1679961600
Imprint Blackstone Publishing
Provider Blackstone Publishing
Categories Arts & Entertainment, History, Europe, Photography
Author Bio
Jill Uris

Jill Uris studied photography at Colorado College, Harvard, and New York University. She served as associate director of the Center of the Eye, a photography school in Aspen, Colorado.

Leon Uris

Leon Uris (1924–2003) was an American novelist. Having run away from home at age seventeen, a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, to join the Marine Corps, he based several of his novels on his own experiences in the marines. His novels include Battle Cry and O’Hara’s Choice, as well as the bestsellers Redemption, Trinity, Exodus, QB VII, and Topaz, among others.

Overview

Jill and Leon Uris came to Ireland looking for answers. Why was Ireland bled by one internal war after another? How can one country contain such greatness and grief? What they discovered was more than the Ireland of peat fires and pubs, of fabled Irish wit and the haunts of the banshees. What they found was a people—trapped in mutual mistrust, but with a courage and kindness that brought them through centuries of bitter occupation and civil dissension, in a land as complexly beautiful as the people themselves. This then is the Urises’ “love song” to the Irish and to Ireland.