[stylist] Irish novel

[kec92 at ourlink.net]

Hi,

The story sounds absolutely fascinating. It was a difficult time in Ireland from the time frame that it sounds like you would want to do. I have visited Ireland and 
know exactly where the people worked. Many of the buildings from that time era are still around. So, if you need any descriptions of actual locations, I'd be more 
than willing to share them with you.

Katie

On Fri 04/20/12  9:00 AM , Bridgit Pollpeter bpollpeter at hotmail.com sent:
> Andi,
> 
> Wow, sounds like you have a good grasp on where you want your story to
> go. There is a lot of political and social issues you plan to
> incorporate, which can be tough, but your best bet will be to focus on
> character development, providing great, compelling characters readers
> will want to spend pages with.
> 
> Ancient Irish culture, Ireland in the 1800's and Ireland in the early
> 1900's seems to be the eras I have the most knowledge of both
> historically and in terms of literature. It's a fascinating, sad and
> powerful history. I think your story ideas sounds interesting and
> potentially moving.
> 
> You are so right in most people not being aware of the conditions many
> Irish faced during the famine and the subsequent following years. To
> this day, Ireland is still dealing with the social, political and
> economical issues stemming from the famine. In fact, before the famine,
> Ireland's population was much larger, but it has never recuperated that
> population since, from both deaths and immigration. At least half its
> population was lost and never recovered.
> 
> The workhouses and segregation of the Anglo-Irish (English implants who
> had settled in Ireland) native Irish and British are never fully
> explored in many stories, and many people are unaware of the horrible
> conditions the Irish faced on so many levels because of British
> colonization and domination of this beautiful country.
> 
> So good luck, and I look forward to this in the future.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
> Read my blog at:
> http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
> 
> "History is not what happened; history is what was written
> down."The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
> 
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> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:12:33 -0400
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> Bridgit
> Thanks.
> I love history and it is part of my double major, but I never get
> enoughof it.  I am one of those odd balls that actually got excited when a
> research paper was assigned especially if it was a new topic or one I
> didn't know much about.  I love pretty much all historical knowledge
> from all cultures and places but I to have had a fondness for Irish...
> Well Irish everything. My next book will follow three people a sister
> and brother and another boy. It will start when they are children and
> follow them through their lives. It will start with the brother and
> sister losing their father to a house fire started by an angry
> landlord.The brother and sister will stick together while trying to survive on
> the cold damp streets of Ireland. Eventually they are fortunate to be
> taken in by a pub owner.  They are so relieved to have food in their
> stomach's and a warm place to sleep that they work like slaves for the
> man who rescued them not out of kindness  but out of greed for almost
> free labor.  The owner turns out to be interested in the maturing
> sisterand when the brother who is now older and no longer the scrawny boy he
> was defends his sister, he is arrested.  He is sent as a teenager to
> work on a British naval ship this time a true slave.  The sister is
> stuck with the vile pub owner until by accident she meets a boy her
> age,befriends him  and gains the courage to leave.  The book will follow
> hislife from childhood as well up to this point however their stories do
> not intertwine until this point.  His story is one not often told when
> looking at the history of Ireland, for he and his family live and work
> in the workhouses implemented and growing in population and shrinking
> inspace because of the Famine.  Eventually they will take the dangerous
> journey to North America.  At some point their story will rejoin with
> her brothers in their new "home."  America will present a hole
> knew setof struggles for the some what uneasy trio.  The book will show the
> perspectives of each of the three main characters back and forth as the
> book goes.
> Sorry for the description but it is going to be a long book and
> span many years so this description sounds jumbled.  My main goal with
> this book besides making an interesting story is to explore some of the
> things that is often overlooked when we learn about this time in Irish
> history.  Some of the familiar components are their, but generally you
> don't hear about the work houses or the ship slaves or even much about
> the upper class such as people who would be able to afford a nights
> lodging at a pub/hotel of sorts. There is more to this book and I don't
> know how to explain it all in a short message.  I am sorry for the
> length of this message.  This book is on the back burner at the moment
> for the book I am riding now, which takes place much much much much
> earlier in history and in a different part of the world. What do you
> think from the little detail I have shared about this Irish historical
> novel?  Does it sound at all interesting or worth writing?  I hope to
> also include details about the secret schools and other things that
> willring true of Irish culture.
> 
> Andi
> 
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