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Red Hugh of Ireland

出版	Harper & Brothers, 1938
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TnHC93PP-MkC&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The stirring novel is laid in Ireland during the days when Queen Elizabeth's soldiers were overrunning the country, trying to subdue the clans still hostile to the Queen, the powerful O'Donnell and O'Neill clans in particular. Elizabeth's deputy in Dublin, Sir John Perrot, had young Hugh O'Donnell seized and brought to Dublin Castle, where he was imprisoned. Perrot's plan was to hold the boy as hostage, to force the O'Donnell to give up certain of his lands for the release of his son. But Hugh escaped, with Art O'Neill, who had also been seized. The story of that escape and the boy's subsequent journey across Ireland to their homes is dramatic and moving. Dangerous as was the actual escape, it was no more harrowing than the journey home. They traveled only by night, and they hid by day, hid in a deep well, hid until darkness fell and they could go on. Always hungry and cold, constantly in danger of being overtaken, Hugh finally reached Ballyshannon, his home, and there at the age of sixteen he became The O'Donnell.