The Macdermots of Ballycloran
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Macdermots_of_Ballycloran Release date is 2009-05-31
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"The Macdermots of Ballycloran" by Anthony Trollope is a novel written between 1843-1845. Trollope's debut work chronicles a Catholic landowning family's tragic downfall in Protestant-dominated Ireland. Thady Macdermot struggles to save his mortgaged estate while family tensions mount. When his sister becomes involved with a hated British officer, a fateful confrontation leads to violence, trial, and devastating consequences. Set before Ireland's Great Famine, the novel captures a vanishing world of sectarian conflict and social upheaval. (This is an automatically generated summary.)