num_pages: 402
description: I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten ...but this hill will be standing still to confound you.' So curses Morty Donovan when 'Copper John' Brodrick builds his mine at Hungry Hill. The Brodricks of Clonmere gain great wealth by harnessing the power of Hungry Hill and extracting the treasure it holds. The Donovans, the original owners of Clonmere Castle, resent the Brodricks' success, and consider the great house and its surrounding land theirs by rights. For generations the feud between the families has simmered, always threatening to break into violence ...
language: English
title: Hungry Hill
titlecomplete: Hungry Hill
characters: Greyhound John Brodrick, Barbara Brodrick, Johnnie Brodrick, Henry Brodrick, Simon Flower, Ned Brodrick, Copper John Brodrick, Fanny-Rosa Flower, Morty Donovan, Jane Brodrick, Eliza Brodrick
genres: Fiction, Ireland, Historical, Gothic, Mystery, British Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 1552
places: Ireland
publisher: Linnaean Press