Land, Loved & Lost (Paperback) by Joseph F. O'Callaghan

Land, Loved and Lost is a love story set in seventeenth-century Ireland. It is a story of the love shared by Donough and Ellen O'Callaghan for one another, and for O'Callaghan's Country, the land they ruled along the Blackwater River in North Cork.

As a member of the Confederation of Kilkenny, Donough fought for civil and religious liberty for Catholics, but the devastation of war prompted him and others to seek a peaceful settlement. After Oliver Cromwell crushed the Confederate Catholics, the estates of Donough and Ellen were confiscated, and they were transplanted to Clare. The people long entrusted to their care were now left leaderless and at the mercy of their new English landlords.

Amidst the turbulence of war, Donough and Ellen inculcated in their children the traditions of feasting and hospitality associated with the four festival seasons of the year and revealed to them the treasury of age-old tales. They encouraged their children to love the land as they did, to appreciate its natural beauty, its ancestral monuments, and the holy ground where so many were interred. It was a land, loved and lost, and with it, an entire way of life.

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