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Ireland: A Terrible Beauty

by Leon Uris · 1975

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Photographs and text combine to provide a tour of the cities, towns, and rural areas of the Republic and of Ulster and of their history and current troubles

Subject
historytravel
Genre
historical fiction
Themes
art
Setting
20th centuryIrelandNorthern Ireland
Audience
adult

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