Cold is the Dawn

<p>Hunger deepened in Ireland in 1848 as the potato crop failed again.</p><p>In London the government alarmed by austerity in England and revolution in Europe refused to re-open the soup kitchens in Ireland. But worse still they refused to halt food exports from the starving country.</p><p>Emigration quickened as many were evicted and many more fled from a wasted land. They worked the waterfronts and coal mine of America and the railways and building sites of England. But hunger still stalked them.</p><p><em>Cold is the Dawn</em> follows these men and women and their bitter fight for survival in Ireland England and America.</p>