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  • The Memory of Music

  • An Irish Family Saga of War & Redemption (The O'Neill Trilogy, Book 3)
  • Written by: Olive Collins
  • Narrated by: Maeve Smyth
  • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins

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The Memory of Music

Written by: Olive Collins
Narrated by: Maeve Smyth
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Publisher's Summary

One Irish family, 100 turbulent years. 

1916: Betty O’Fogarty is proud and clever. Spurred on by Betty's belief in her husband Seamus’s talent as a violin-maker and her desire to escape rural life, the couple elopes to Dublin. She expects life there to fulfill all her dreams. To her horror, she discovers that they can only afford to live in the notorious poverty-stricken tenements. Seamus becomes obsessed with republican politics and neglects his lucrative craft. 

As Dublin is plunged into chaos as the Easter Rebellion of 1916, Betty gives birth to her first child to the sound of gunfire and shelling. But Betty vows that she will survive war and want, and move her little family out of the tenements. Nothing will stand in her way. A hundred years later, secrets churn their way to the surface, and Betty’s grandchildren and great-grandchildren uncover both Betty’s ruthlessness and her unique brand of heroism.

©2019 Olive Collins (P)2021 Olive Collins

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