This is a biography of the author's ancestors----a saga of one family's flight from their native famine stricken Ireland. To avoid dying of stravation and poverty this band of Irish travellers fled across the Irish Sea. They struggled against homesickness and at times the hostile racist treatment of their new neighbours. Their journeying took them from their fields of rotten, black, stinking potatoes where the population lay dying by the roadsides to the "black Satanic mills"of North East England through the green and rolling hills of the Scottish Borders and through the majestic Scottish Highlands and the coastal towns of Aberdeenshire and Fife until after many years they finally settled in Dundee with her forest of towering reeking stacks and air thick with stoor and polluted by the ever present stench of raw jute.
Their integrrity, good humour and hard work ethic saw this family lay down roots and germinate their seeds to settle with varying degrees of success in their new coiuntry without ever losing their inherited Irish travelling pride and individulaism.
Their integrrity, good humour and hard work ethic saw this family lay down roots and germinate their seeds to settle with varying degrees of success in their new coiuntry without ever losing their inherited Irish travelling pride and individulaism.
