Dublin: Foundation

Dublin: Foundation (US title The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga)

First edition cover
Author Edward Rutherfurd
Country England
Language English
Series The Dublin Saga
Genre Historical novel
Publisher Century Hutchinson
Publication date
4 March 2004
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 804 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN 0-7126-8000-4 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC 54507587
Followed by Ireland: Awakening

Dublin: Foundation (2004) (also known in North America as The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga or sometimes simply Dublin) is a novel by Edward Rutherfurd first published in 2004 by Century Hutchinson and then by Seal Books and Doubleday Canada.

It is a work of historical fiction and centers on a number of families and their descendants in and around the area of Ireland that is now Dublin. It begins in AD 430 with the love affair of a prince (Conall) and the daughter of an Irish chief (Deirdre) from the area of Dubh Linn . It concludes in AD 1533, with the disappearance of the Staff of Saint Patrick. Historical characters include Saint Patrick, Brian Boru, Strongbow, and King John of England, among others.

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