The Irish Lightkeeper's Legacy

In June of 1837, as a teenaged Queen Victoria assumed the throne, an Irish Catholic peasant laboured from dawn to dusk farming land owned by the Marquess of Ely, a powerful peer of the Queen’s realm. Alexander, Alec, Power, a lowly estate worker, would live and die working these fields for his master, while trapped in a feudal system from which there was no exit. But Alec did escape. Through strength of character, tenacity, and an unlikely connection to a prominent Irish Protestant official...