Trim Castle, Co Meath: Excavations 1995-8

Journalist Clodagh Finn meticulously pieces together the story of the brave Irish woman who risked her life and spent time in a Gestapo prison for saving the lives of hundreds of people - adults and children - bound for Nazi concentration camps.

Comprehensive account of one of the darkest episodes in the history of penal transportation history

In the time of Ireland's Great Famine, poor people were, in places, so "reduced" that they treated each other with brutal callousness. Husbands abandoned wives and children.