978-0-7735-3357-8 April 2008
In the summer of 1848, during the worst days of the Great Irish Famine, a band of idealistic revolutionaries tried to spark the starving Irish people into rebelling against their cruel British overlords. But the writers, poets and orators known collectively as Young Ireland weren't able to deliver food to the nation's dying peasants, and the uprising, famously confined to a single incident in the Widow McCormack's cabbage patch in Ballingarry, County Tipperary, was over before it began.
