All Their Kingdoms Author:Madeleine A. Polland Celia is a country girl, daughter of a wellborn but impoverished Galway family. In Irelands post-famine years, her education as a lady is no more than her ambitious father's investment in her future; Celia has been raised to marry well -- but not for love. — Then Matt O'Connor comes riding out from Dublin: the knight on a white horse, the golden ... more »boy rich enough to satisfy Tom Healey's greed and the one man for Celia's heart from the moment they meet.
But the love story of Celia Healey and Matt O'Connor, unashamedly and irresistibly romantic, is only the beginning of a richly textured novel about three generations of an Irish family -- a brilliantly plotted story of love, loss, betrayal and ironic triumph.« less