If you inherited ten million dollars would you tell your family? Someone doesn't. This novel is in two parts, The Past and The Present. Part 1 starts in the mid nineteenth century and gives readers a unique insight into the lives of two very different families. Five generations of the Collins family work in the Guinness Brewery as coopers. We relive what life is like in the tenements of Dublin, infamous for the perfectly hellish conditions under which its people are housed from the mid eighteenth century. We witness the widespread destruction of Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising, the Irish...