Saoirse: The Irish Slave & The Divide

Saoirse - Mercedes Keyes 20th published work of written historical fact-fiction. A tale told by few, missing from the history books - part of British and American history - hushed to maintain a successful divide. This historical fact-fiction drama surrounds the hidden hell of the gentrified and enslaved Irish at the hands of Oliver Cromwell. This saga starts in the late 17th Century, with a son of Irish Aristocracy - arrested for highwaymen activities. A rebel out to terrorize the English invading their lands - unaware of the crop he would reap from the seeds he sowed. He quickly learned how well his activities aided Cromwell's campaign against the inhabitants of Ireland.

Maximilian Euan O'Shaughnessy found himself shackled and shipped off to the new colonies - (the Americas) - a rich land where the aristocracy of Britain needed a labor force to grow and develop the plantations of tobacco, hemp, and cotton. Free labor. Manpower, that would not eat into their profits. The new world's test pilot slaves - the Irish. Desperate to once again be free - he found that his hero - came in the form of a free, tiny, native girl many called Pe'hor - renamed Pheybey . Following her lead and that of other natives, Max joined other Irish men and women in learning the true definition of love, life, and the value of freedom as they were taught to survive in the new land.

Pheybey , a mixed heritage native girl, is the daughter of a native tribal woman and a visiting Moore. Pheybey is defiant, innovative, can use herbs and plants to cure or fix most ailments. She is passionate and determined to help her people, as well the Irish, and a slave, Max, who has a determination to stay free and out of the binds and horrors of slavery.

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