An Untilled Field (Historical Fiction): If it’s a land war they want, there are people prepared to fight back. By Dennis Carey Kindle Edition An Untilled Field (Historical Fiction): If it’s a land war they want, there are people prepared to fight back. Victorian Ireland. A boy in search of redress. Victorian England. A man in search of redemption. 1879, County Mayo, Ireland. Liam Walshe and his sick, four year old brother, Aiden, are separated from their mother and father, their home destroyed. Liam needs to keep his brother alive whilst he searches for their parents, then he’ll take his revenge. He needs help. 1876, London, England. Bernie Kelly is the oldest bare knuckle fighter on the illegal, underground circuit. A tragedy forces him back to Dublin, the city he ran away from thirty years earlier, and he wants the woman he loves to go with him. Though Dublin has changed, its demons still haunt him. He needs a cause. When Bernie runs into Liam on a bank of the River Moy, help meets a cause. Rural Ireland has made a partial recovery from the potato blight that plagued the country in the middle of the century. As the 1870s draw to a close, agriculture faces new challenges. When tenant farmers struggle to pay their rent, landlords react with evictions. If it’s a land war they want, there are people prepared to fight back.

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Victorian Ireland A boy in search of redress Victorian England A man in search of redemption 1879 County Mayo Ireland Liam Walshe and his sick four year old brother Aiden are separated from their mother and father their home destroyed Liam needs to keep his brother alive whilst he searches for their parents then he ll take his revenge He needs help 1876 London England Bernie Kelly is the oldest bare knuckle fighter on the illegal underground circuit A tragedy forces him back to Dublin the city he ran away from thirty years earlier and he wants the woman he loves to go with him Though Dublin has changed its demons still haunt him He needs a cause When Bernie runs into Liam on a bank of the River Moy help meets a cause Rural Ireland has made a partial recovery from the potato blight that plagued the country in the middle of the century As the 1870s draw to a close agriculture faces new challenges When tenant farmers struggle to pay their rent landlords react with evictions If it s a land war they want there are people prepared to fight back An Untilled Field Historical Fiction If it s a land war they want there are people prepared to fight back. An untilled field book review An Untilled Field by Dennis Carey is a historical fiction loosely based on real life events in late 19th Ireland It follows the adventures of sixteen year old Liam Walshe and his sick four year old brother Aiden in their quest to find their parents after the family was brutally evicted from the home and farm Their story is interwoven between the antics of the land agent Billie Cuffe and his boss notorious landowner Harriet Gardiner who are responsible for the Walshe s eviction and also with Bernie Kellie O Malley and Irish pugilistic who returns to Ireland after decades away in search of his lost brother Carey does a good job of bringing the characters their motivates and circumstances and the places and times to life on the page In particular the plight of tenant farmers whose homes and farms are destroyed on flimsy pretexts and exorbitant rents due to the landowners wish to turn their lands into the lucrative cattle grazing and the unrest and opposition that incited Billie Cuffe Harriet Gardiner and her companion Susanna Pringle Huddy and even James Walshe the boys father are all historical people with the evictions and Gardiner s antics accurately portrayed Even the raid on Farmhill estate is based in a historical event though with a heavy layer of fictional embellishment with different outcomes for Cuffe Huddy and Gardiner in real life However I found the constant jumping back and forward of the narrative in time and place without a discernible pattern was at times disconcerting particularly in the earlier parts of the book The historical Harriet Gardiner faced tragedy early in life her mother died when she was a toddler and she was then side lined by her stepmother and half siblings to the point where she was largely brought up by her bachelor uncle Her desired marriage to a painter was scuttled by her father and she remained a spinster though acquiring her father s estates and then eventually inheriting her uncle s Harriet eschewed the s of the time pursuing with relish masculine sports and even dressing in corduroy trousers drinking and swearing in public Hers could be seen as a Cinderella tale except she was denied marriage with the man she loved and one of a strong woman bucking the restrictive expectations forced upon women of the time But real life is seldom black and white and as an abusive and exploitative landlord savagely driving many families out of their homes and into the workhouse immigration destitution or an early grave Harriet makes a worthy villain See Harriet Gardiner b. An untilled field book summary 1892 in Our Irish Heritage Despite some rough transitions I enjoyed reading Carey s retelling of the land wars through the fictional eyes of Liam Walshe and Bernie Kelly and their friends I d recommended An Untilled Field to anyone wanting to get a better feel of evictions and political movements of late 19th Ireland century An Untilled Field Historical Fiction If it s a land war they want there are people prepared to fight back Excellent ReadI would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading about Ireland in the 1800s. An Untilled fieldquip Well done Dennis Carey looking forward to your next book An Untilled Field Historical Fiction If it s a land war they want there are people prepared to fight back

An Untilled Field (Historical Fiction): If it’s a land war they want, there are people prepared to fight back. By Dennis Carey

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