Author: Michael Nicholson
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 075096586X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Dark Rosaleen is a story of love, murder and betrayal, of a failed rebellion and a national scandal.Sir William McCauley was appointed Director of the Famine Relief Programme at a time when hunger raged across Ireland and antipathy towards the plight of the Irish infused the politics of Britain. Kathryn, William’s daughter, was forced to join her father, and felt no sympathy until the very scale of the tragedy became all too obvious. Joining the underground, she preached insurrection, stole food for the starving and became the lover of the leader of the rebellion. Known as Dark Rosaleen, the heroine of banned nationalist poem, she was branded both traitor and cause celebré. This is her story.
Dark Rosaleen
Author: Michael Nicholson
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 075096586X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Dark Rosaleen is a story of love, murder and betrayal, of a failed rebellion and a national scandal.Sir William McCauley was appointed Director of the Famine Relief Programme at a time when hunger raged across Ireland and antipathy towards the plight of the Irish infused the politics of Britain. Kathryn, William’s daughter, was forced to join her father, and felt no sympathy until the very scale of the tragedy became all too obvious. Joining the underground, she preached insurrection, stole food for the starving and became the lover of the leader of the rebellion. Known as Dark Rosaleen, the heroine of banned nationalist poem, she was branded both traitor and cause celebré. This is her story.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 075096586X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Dark Rosaleen is a story of love, murder and betrayal, of a failed rebellion and a national scandal.Sir William McCauley was appointed Director of the Famine Relief Programme at a time when hunger raged across Ireland and antipathy towards the plight of the Irish infused the politics of Britain. Kathryn, William’s daughter, was forced to join her father, and felt no sympathy until the very scale of the tragedy became all too obvious. Joining the underground, she preached insurrection, stole food for the starving and became the lover of the leader of the rebellion. Known as Dark Rosaleen, the heroine of banned nationalist poem, she was branded both traitor and cause celebré. This is her story.
The Ballads of Ireland
Author: Edward Hayes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Irish Literature
Author: Maureen O'Rourke Murphy
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815624059
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815624059
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
My Dark Rosaleen
Author: Fidelis Morgan
Publisher: Fidelis Morgan
ISBN: 0957074360
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
"Brilliantly original" - Lynda La Plante. Heritage, history, war and romance interweave in the three dramatic storylines of MY DARK ROSALEEN, a family saga of Ireland: 1990 Rosaleen - a middle aged, middle class Englishwoman is languishing in a prison cell on charges of terrorism; 1921 Catherine - an Irish heiress gives up everything to live in the Liverpool dockland slums; 1588 Hugo - a young Spanish boy is plunged into the blood-soaked battles of the Spanish Armada and early 17th century Ireland.
Publisher: Fidelis Morgan
ISBN: 0957074360
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
"Brilliantly original" - Lynda La Plante. Heritage, history, war and romance interweave in the three dramatic storylines of MY DARK ROSALEEN, a family saga of Ireland: 1990 Rosaleen - a middle aged, middle class Englishwoman is languishing in a prison cell on charges of terrorism; 1921 Catherine - an Irish heiress gives up everything to live in the Liverpool dockland slums; 1588 Hugo - a young Spanish boy is plunged into the blood-soaked battles of the Spanish Armada and early 17th century Ireland.
My Dark Rosaleen
Author: Fidelis Morgan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780749315290
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780749315290
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
The Copeland Reader
Author: Charles Townsend Copeland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1744
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1744
Book Description
Poems
Author: James Clarence Mangan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The Living Age
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895
Author: Edmund Clarence Stedman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
A Selection from the Great English Poets
Author: Sherwin Cody
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description