Murleys of Cloghfune (eBook)

Potato Farming to Copper Mining

Sue Hurley Myers (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
360 Seiten
Jacqueline S Myers (Verlag)
978-1-7323095-1-7 (ISBN)

Infos

As the Murleys of Cloghfune eked out a living growing potatoes in the rock-strewn land of the Beara Peninsula in the early 1800s, the first wave of industrialization was underway nearby. Wealthy English landowner, John Puxley, began excavating a rich lode of copper in the mountainous land just three miles north of Cloghfune.News of the mine opening prompted Padraigh Murley, age 35, and his son, protagonist, Denis Murley, age 13, to seek work there. Initially turned away because they were Irish, the mine overseer, Andrew Hall, realized the necessity of hiring the Irish. He convinced a reluctant Puxley to hire them for lower wages, as they awaited English workers to arrive from Cornwall, England.Padraigh's wife, Margaret, gave birth to a sixth child, Colm, at the same time the family was faced with a serious illness of three-year-old daughter, Bridget. Efforts to heal the sick child reflect conflicting views of fairy beliefs, midwifery and Catholic Church teachings.The costly dangers of copper mining and raising a family are experienced as the Murley family strove to survive and thrive in the midst of discrimination, hunger, illness, loss, births and deaths. Because of his relationship with hedge school schoolmaster, Thomas Tucker, Padraigh learned the power of education, and his lack of it. His insistence that Denis stop working at the mine and return to hedge school is met with rebellion. John Puxley and his English mine captains experience their own developmental trajectory, fraught with obstacles of operating a successful mine in a place as desolate and backward as the Beara.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Summer HungerChapter 2 No Irish Need ApplyChapter 3 BridgeeChapter 4 Labor DayChapter 5 RenewalChapter 6 New LifeChapter 7 New HiresChapter 8 Standing GroundChapter 9 RealitiesChapter 10 Harvest TimeChapter 11 The LetterChapter 12 Mass RockChapter 13 After MassChapter 14 ChoicesChapter 15 Divergent PowersChapter 16 GrievingChapter 17 Forging AheadChapter 18 Bargains Chapter 19 ObstaclesChapter 20 Progress ReportChapter 21 The LettersChapter 22 BreathingChapter 23 Different PathsChapter 24 Poor ScholarChapter 25 Down UnderChapter 26 PayrollChapter 27 Ambrose and DillonChapter 28 JusticeChapter 29 DeclanChapter 30 Hedge School LessonChapter 31 ElegyChapter 32 InjusticeChapter 33 The CaveChapter 34 Shadow of JusticeChapter 35 Bitter JusticeChapter 36 Tentacles of JusticeChapter 37 ChangeChapter 38 The Will to ChangeChapter 39 Aftermath Chapter 40 KillersChapter 41 Poor Scholar LessonChapter 42 Close CallChapter 43 Seeking PaddyChapter 44 The FightChapter 45 Return and ReposeChapter 46 GriefChapter 47 PaydayChapter 48 Profit and LossChapter 49 LearningChapter 50 FallingChapter 51 SearchingChapter 52 SufferingChapter 53 The BreakChapter 54 Unjust CauseChapter 55 UncertaintyChapter 56 But for a SparkChapter 57 A LeapChapter 58 The PledgeChapter 59 An AccountingChapter 60 The ClimbChapter 61 Bread and FlowersChapter 62 TumultChapter 63 Death and LifeChapter 64 A BeginningMap – Beara PeninsulaMap – Murley’s CloghfuneMap – Cloghfune to Mountain MineGlossary 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Schlagworte: Beara Peninsula • early 1800s • Fairy Beliefs • Family Saga • hedge school • Irish • Mining
• ISBN-10: 1-7323095-1-5 / 1732309515
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7323095-1-7 / 9781732309517