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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Collier, Catrin.     Subjects     Strikebreakers -- Fiction.     Irish -- Wales -- Fiction.     Coal miners -- Fiction.     Tonypandy Riots, 1911 -- Fiction.     Wales -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Collier, Catrin.       by title:      Black-eyed devils : ...       by call number:      FICTION COL     Search the Web     Collier, Catrin.     Strikebreakers -- Fiction.     Irish -- Wales -- Fiction.     Coal miners -- Fiction.     Tonypandy Riots, 1911 -- Fiction.     Wales -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Black-eyed devils : a secret love in a valley full of violence / Catrin Collier. by Collier, Catrin. Accent Press, 2009. Call #: FICTION COL Subjects Strikebreakers -- Fiction.   Irish -- Wales -- Fiction.   Coal miners -- Fiction.   Tonypandy Riots, 1911 -- Fiction.   Wales -- Fiction. Series Quick reads. ISBN:  9781906373610 (softcover) Description:  116 p. ; 20 cm. Summary:  One look was enough. Amy Watkins and miner 'Big' Tom Kelly were in love. But can they keep their feelings secret or face the threat of death in a community torn apart by the miner's strike? Tonypandy, South Wales, 1911. Starving, striking miners fight soldiers and police on the picket lines for the right to earn a wage that will feed their families, while Irish labourers are brought in the take their place in the pits, for half their pay. Handsome 'Big' Tom Kelly, an Irish worker, comes to Wales looking for a better life and believes he has found it when he falls in love with Amy Watkins, the daughter of a strike leader. At night, the miners search out the Irish men, drag them from their beds, beat them and then hang them from the street lamp posts. Can Amy and Tom keep their love a secret forever? All they want is a future together. But in a world full of hatred, anger and violence, their dream seems impossible. Until another strike leader offers them a way out. Genre:  Historical fiction. Literacy materials. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Literacy Fiction L FICTION COL Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Cole Harbour Public Library Adult Literacy Fiction L FICTION COL Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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