The Forgotten Histories · Book Two

The Theft
of Truth

Some truths are lost. Others are taken.

One generation after the events on Sheemore Hill, the Keon family story takes another extraordinary turn. An inheritance is disputed. A husband is transported to New South Wales. A wife petitions the government for his return. And years later, a young man enters the Irish courts determined to prove who he is and what his family was entitled to inherit.

Reconstructed from letters, petitions, court reports and family records, The Theft of Truth follows a trail from County Roscommon to colonial Australia and back again, uncovering a family history in which identity, legitimacy and inheritance become matters of evidence.