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The Emerald Isle
First published 1999
Cahira O’Connor, daughter of a king of Connacht, resists the marriage and domestic obedience expected of her. When Norman expansion threatens her people, military necessity and her growing love for a man who recognises her courage draw her into the conflict from which the later family legend will emerge.
In the modern strand, Kathleen returns to Ireland for a friend’s wedding and continues testing legend against evidence. Learning how Cahira’s vow was born forces her to stop treating the past as an escape from her own choices. The conclusion joins the founder and heir of the tradition, presenting courage as service to living communities rather than romantic devotion to ancestry alone.
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