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Powder Keg: 1840-1880

The Donnellys, Volume 1

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Powder Keg: 1840-1880

Written by: John Little
Narrated by: Gareth Richards
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A violent family living in violent times.

In the 1840s, the Donnelly family immigrates from Ireland to the British province of Canada. Almost immediately problems develop as the patriarch of the family is sent to the Kingston Penitentiary for manslaughter, leaving his wife to raise their eight children on her own.

The children are raised in an incredibly violent community and cultivate a devoted loyalty to their mother and siblings, which often leads to problems with the law and those outside of the family.

The tensions between the family and their community escalate as the family's enemies begin to multiply. The brothers go into business running a stagecoach line and repay all acts of violence perpetrated against them, which only worsens the situation.

Refusing to take a backward step, the Donnellys stand alone against a growing power base that includes wealthy business interests in the town of Lucan, the local diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, law authorities, and a number of their neighbors.

Contains mature themes.

©2021 John Little (P)2021 Tantor 19th Century Modern Organised Crime True Crime
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