Clear The Way

Ireland - When Sean Finnegan had called "I've got a gun and I'll as sure as hell use it," it was a gesture, a mere gesture - that's all it could be - one man against a detachment of the royal Irish

Constabulary. The rest of the evictions went quietly enough.

Africa - On the rough hewn table is a Bible, finger-worn from constant reading. The house is silent. Van Rebec's wife emerges from the dark interior. She is excited and she says to the other man, "Jan Roux, you have a healthy daughter". In a few years, the Boer republic of Transvaal and this family, will be involved in a fight for survival against the gold hungry British empire. The baby girl now a young woman a nurse, suffered the British concentration camp, to find strength and eventually love.

America - They survived the Coffin Ship, and after the Belfast slums, Hell's Kitchen wasn't so bad. They weren't exactly welcomed with open arms, but, at least America did offer opportunity and they took it. The eldest boy Sean discovered that robbery paid better than working at a metal press. Black Americans only recently released from slavery themselves, disdainfully called the Irish "White niggers."

England - He was raised in a family of privilege, but enlisted in the British army as a private

soldier. now a highly decorated regimental Sergeant Major, he seeks truth through war and finds it in defeat. Adventure, love, bloody war, victory over repression, British concentration camps, the dynamics of turbulent history.

* Two families tragically torn apart during the Irish evictions and British repression in Africa, each struggles to survive. They have the courage to overcome British imperialism, American prejudice, African reserve, World Wide Stereotyping.

* The story follows their journeys, one from Belfast, the other in their fight to save their African republic, and two lovers across the war torn African veldt, as they struggle to be together. They, the families and the lovers, ultimately triumph.

If your family tree has any Irish sap in its veins, and isn't that almost everybody? This could be your story?