The Girl from Dunslaney

<p><strong>It's 1776 and England is in the grip of a phenomenon that will become to be known as 'Canal Mania'.</strong></p><p>In the next fifty years or so thousands of miles of these man-made waterways will criss-cross the country opening up trade on a scale previously unimaginable.</p><p>Young Sam Burton leaves the humble family farm to try his luck at 'navvying'.</p><p>Meanwhile over the sea in Co. Wexford young orphan maid Mary O'Farrell is being cruelly exploited by her rich master Fintan Regan.</p><p>The fates of these three vastly different characters become intertwined in a classic<em> love triangle</em> culminating in a dramatic climax on a Cheshire canal.</p>