Ireland A Terrible Beauty Author:Jill Uris, Leon Uris Jill and Leon Uris came to Ireland looking for answers. Why has Ireland been bled by one internal war after another? How can one country contain such greatness and grief? — What they discovered was more than the Ireland of peat fires and pubs, of fabled Irish wit and the haunts of banshees. What they found was a people - trapped in mutual mistrus... more »t, but with a courage and kindness that brought them through centuries of bitter occupation and civil dissension, in a land as complexly beautiful as the people themselves.« less