Random Audio, New York, 2004.  ISBN 0-553-71278-0.  6 cassette tapes with an approximate playing time of 9 hours.  Tapes have been tested and all play very well; short tear to box.  Read by John Keating.  ‘… portrays the major events in Irish history:  the tribal culture of pagan Ireland; the mission of St. Patrick; the coming of the Vikings and the founding of Dublin; the glories of the great nearby monastery of Glendalough and the making of treasures like the Book of Kells; the trickery of Henry II, which gave England its first foothold in medieval Ireland.  The stage is then set for the great conflict between the English kings and the princes of Ireland, and the disastrous Irish invasion of England, which incurred the wrath of Henry VIII, and where this book, the first of the two-part Dublin Saga, draws to a close, as the path of Irish history takes a dramatic and irrevocable turn.’ (from rear box)