The Chieftain — Alice Dwyer-Joyce

A bridge of time spans the years and crosses the seas between Ireland and Boston, America... In her sad, fascinating journal, reaching from the famine-stricken 'Hell of Connaught', Mary Weston tells of her flight along the death-strewn country roads to bargain for her Chieftain's passage and that of her family, and of her iron struggle to set up a new dynasty in a new land. When trouble comes again to her Chieftain's descendant, after many generations, Mary has the power to reach him through time and space.