Tom Ryan's Shoes: The Legend of the Banshee Castle

In famine-stricken 19th-century Ireland, young Tom Ryan leaves Ballyhooly with his cousin Frank and a pig, setting out across the Galtee Mountains toward the promise of opportunity in Tipperary. What begins as a practical journey soon becomes a passage through a country unraveling under the weight of hunger, eviction, violence, and despair. Starving families line the roads; ruthless land agents enforce brutal order. Soup kitchens trade food for faith, as secret societies lurk in the shadows...