Ireland a Terrible Beauty

Ireland a Terrible Beauty by Jill and Leon Uris. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780553010893.

The story of Ireland, the Irish, and todays troubles told by Leon Uris With 388 photographs by Jill Uris including 108 in full color. Jill and Leon Uris came to Ireland looking for answers. Why has Ireland been 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 in words-and in poetic and powerful photographs-is the Urises "love song" to the Irish and to Ireland.