BOOK LAUNCH-SETTING DONEGAL ON FIRE

Meet Diane Lovegrove Bader, author of Setting Donegal on Fire and great granddaughter of its hero, Daniel Sweeney. Diane will read excerpts from her book and have copies available to sign.

In 1877 Daniel Sweeney, a wealthy Irish immigrant who owned the first stockyard in the City, leaves San Francisco and returns to Ireland with his wife and eight children. Appalled at the miserable conditions in which he finds the rural people of his native land, he challenges what he believes is a policy of neglect by both landlords and the authorities. This book provides insight into a true story of one returning immigrant’s encounter with the people he loves, the landlords he despises and the law under which he suffered.

 SPONSORED BY THE PATRICK J. DOWLING LIBRARY & ICCC LOCATED AT THE UNITED IRISH CULTURAL CENTER.