even small birds fly free

<p><span style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>n the middle of the 19th century a disease hits potato crops across Europe which has a devastating effect on small tenant farmers in Ireland. The Westminster government recognises it as the hand of God and does not intervene.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>A million people die and a further two million people are forced to emigrate as refugees mainly to the new world of the United States.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>This is the story of five people three who emigrate to America and are swept up in the division of the country which leads to civil war.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>Brothers Pádraig and Caelan from Skibbereen travel to the New World and end up on opposite sides of the conflict. Mary arrives as a refugee in Five Points and is caught up in the turbulence of New York City.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>Peadar Mary's father finds work on a Famine Road in County Cork. Cormac seeks refuge among Boleymen on the Sheep's Head peninsula.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(89 89 89 1)>The intimate portrayal of these five lives traces a traumatic time when the face of both Ireland and the United States are changed through the devastation of one culture and the reckoning of another.</span></p>