{"product_id":"brian-boru-roger-chatterton-newman-9781856357197","title":"Brian Boru: King of Ireland","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrian Boru is chiefly remembered as the man who drove the Vikings from Ireland, and who died at the Battle of Clontarf on Good Friday 1014. But there was far more to his life than that. The youngest son of an obscure king from the kingdom of Thomond, he came closer than any other Irishman has to uniting Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe tamed the Danes of Limerick and the Norsemen of Dublin, overthrew the six-century monopoly of the Uí Néill on the throne of Ireland and became one of the few high kings to invest that throne with any real authority. An able administrator and a patron of the church and of learning, he fully deserved the title 'Emperor of the Irish' accorded him by an admirer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrian Boru, King of Ireland explores the life and times of this remarkable man, attempts to distil reality from myth and shows what might have happened in Irish history had the events of Easter 1014 not taken place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roger Chatterton Newman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1856357198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781856357197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mercier Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2011 pg. 24","brand":"Roger Chatterton Newman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086353150207,"sku":"9781856357197","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f7501d53-e85d-4727-bd51-57e21cadafac.jpg?v=1769094205","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/brian-boru-roger-chatterton-newman-9781856357197","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}