In the Clouds of the Night

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the early hours of 4th March 1939 Thomas Pakenham a Protestant widower from Dublin bundles his four young Catholic children into a waiting car and smuggles them across the border into the North of Ireland. Wracked with grief at the loss of his wife Ciss and driven by paranoia and suspicion that her Catholic family will lay claim to their children he does the only thing he believes he can do and disappears.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What follows is a complex tale of survival and sacrifice as the family Thomas vowed to keep together face separation hunger chaos and cruelty. For years the children's lives are marked by trauma loss and despair while back in the South their maternal grandmother Kate Beirne consumed by grief holds on to the hope of news about her missing grandchildren.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the Clouds of the Night</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> explores the profound struggle and resilience of one family in mid-century Ireland highlighting the hardships of separation the pain of loss and the enduring hope for reconciliation. It examines the unconventional choices made in the name of love and religion the impact of those decisions and the strength found in forgiveness and restoration offering timeless reflections on faith family and the human condition.</span></p>