Description
Author: Peter Berresford Ellis
Publisher: Wiley (TP)
Published: 03/01/2004
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.10w x 1.14d
ISBN13: 9780471266334
ISBN10: 0471266337
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Ireland
About the Author
PETER BERRESFORD ELLIS, from an old Cork family, took his degrees in Celtic Studies and was recently acclaimed as "the pre-eminent Celtic Scholar now writing" (Times Educational Supplement). As well as his popular books on the ancient Celts, he is the author of many notable Irish histories, including History of the Irish Working Class; Hell or Connaught!: The Cromwellian Colonization of Ireland 1652--1660; The Boyne Water: The Battle of the Boyne, 1690; A Dictionary of Irish Mythology; and Erin's Blood Royal. Under his own name he was the author of a bestselling novel The Rising of the Moon, about the Irish Republican Brotherhood's 1866 attempt to invade Canada. Under the pseudonym of Peter Tremayne, he is best known for his internationally bestselling Sister Fidelma mystery series set in seventh- century Ireland. He lives in London.