The Winds of County Down

By Dorothy MacNeill DuPont

Under remarkable circumstances, a child of a desperately poor Scottish shepherd, Maggie Coburn, moves with her family to the mountain farmland of Northern Ireland in 1854. Her journey to the Legananny begins a long, secret friendship with a soldier of the Scots Fusilier Guards, the future 5th Earl of Annesley. What expectation could Maggie, the lovely crippled maid of Legananny, have of being a wife and mother, in the harsh conditions and superstitions of rural County Down? Would Joseph, the wild Irish boy who claims to love her, consent to be shackled to a wife who cannot walk or help with his farm or children? Would the powerful nobleman she loves, forsake his social and political responsibilities, to take a tenant farmer's daughter to wed? Maggie Coburn, lives her life full out with the courage, bruises, and triumphs born of a intrepid, determined and hopeful spirit.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1499341121
• ISBN13: 9781499341126
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"