In Those Blighted Fields

Download or read book In Those Blighted Fields written by P. J. Keogh and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most traumatic time in Anglo/Irish history is brought to the page in the dynamic new novel In Those Blighted Fields. Set in 1840s Tipperary, Dublin and London, the story spans the period from Robert Peel's suppression of Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Campaign, to the onset of the great potato blight - the 'Irish Holocaust' - whose consequences resonate to this day. Against a background of violent resistance to oppression, Moya O'Shea - leaseholder's daughter and descendant of kings - marries 'across the line', yet stays true to her heritage. Then famine strikes the land.