Dark Rosaleen
Dark Rosaleen Love, death, and politics in a time of great famine and hardship in IrelandThis is a novel based on the true story of the Great Famine in Ireland of 1840s. Charles Trevelyan was…
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Dark Rosaleen
Love, death, and politics in a time of great famine and hardship in IrelandThis is a novel based on the true story of the Great Famine in Ireland of 1840s. Charles Trevelyan was Secretary of the Treasury, and Director of the Famine Relief Programme at a time when famine raged and antipathy in English politics towards the plight of those affected raged equally. Historically accurate, it is a story of murder and betrayal, of a failed rebellion, and the love of a national scandal.
Joining the underground, she preached insurrection, stole food for the starving, and became the lover of the leader of the rebellion. Kathryn, Charles' daughter, likewise felt no sympathy until the very scale of the tragedy became apparent. She became known as Dark Rosaleen, the heroine of banned nationalist poem, was branded as both traitor and cause celebr .
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