Ireland: Awakening: Edward RutherfurdBook II of the Dublin Saga. In the days of England's colonising plantations, the ranting Puritan preacher Doctor Pincher and his land hungry nephew Barnaby Budge oppose the passionate piety of the Walshes. Against the background of the Irish Confederation, the coming of Cromwell, the massacre of Drogheda, and the Battle of the Boyne, the middle aged adultery of Margaret Smith with the Irish chieftain Brian O'Byrne leads to many consequences. During