CASTLES OF SCOTLAND IRELAND AND WALES (HB)

The communities and wooden buildings that grew up around them have been dismantled. Only the castles, centuries on, remain. From the tip of southern Ireland to northern Scotland, from castles maintained over the centuries to ones that are now mere ruins, this book explores the stories behind more than 100 strongholds. Here are tales of religious dissent, of English Parliamentarians attacking Irish Catholic refuges, of warring Scottish clans, of the Welsh fighting for independence. A pictorial examination of worlds gone by.