I was disappointed when I started to read this & realized it was the same book, Ireland: Awakening that I had just read. I didn't know the same book could have different titles. I think one was published for here, the other in the UK. I love how he writes & the story is excellent. I will reread this & The Princes of Ireland, which preceeds it. There's so much in both of them & he masterfully weaves history & fiction together.