Dark Rosaleen: A Famine Novel

‘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 celebre. This is her story. AUTHOR: One of the world’s most decorated war-correspondents, a BAFTA winner and three-time Royal Society Journalist of the Year, upon whose life the story of ‘Welcome to Sarajevo’ was based, Michael Nicholson has turned to fiction in this work to tell the story of ‘Dark Rosaleen’, and paints a picture of a single life in famine-ridden Ireland.
SELLING POINTS: . A famine-fiction novel, by one of the world’s most decorated war correspondents . Historically accurate, the author’s re-imagining of tragic events brings a new and exciting perspective to Ireland’s most devastating time