Title: The Tobacco Fields of Meath
Author: Liam Nevin (The Manuscript Publisher and Liam Nevin)
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This is a true story of families at the turn of the twentieth century struggling to make a go of a new crop, in order to improve the lives of ordinary people and control the massive problem of unemployment and its consequence – emigration.

The story is a tragic one in many ways, but it paints a picture of life in Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A time when Ireland, and the world, was changing rapidly and many struggled with these changes.

In telling…