"You're a menace, Padraig, an' I see no hope o' you changin'. Is there?" Quinton McCoy paused, giving his son a gimlet stare out of eyes as green as the serpentine in Connemara marble. "Is there?"
Padraig pretended to think, then shook his head. "No, Da, I don't believe there is. I'm enjoyin' it too much." "Ah!" Quinton threw up his hands, then recovered. He stalked back around his desk but didn't sit. "I'm afraid you leave me no choice." Briefly his anger fell away. His gaze wavered, then he appeared to force himself to speak. "Padraig, lad...I'm turnin' you out." "You...you're disownin' me?" Padraig's voice trembled. "Ah, I'd ne'er do that." Quinton said. "What I'm sayin' is...I want you t' leave this house, indeed this country, an' ne'er come back." Thus begins the story of Padraig Aloysius McCoy, third son and bad seed of Tipperary's branch of the McCoy clan. Unlike Books 1 and 2, set in Regency England and Ireland, The Man from Tipperary ranges from the gracious homes of landed gentry in Tipperary to an isolated cattle ranch in the American West in the years prior to and including the War Between the States. Settling in Nebraska, the misplaced young Irishman learns the hardship and heartache of being a cowboy in the mid-19th century, as well as the adventure of living in a time of social transition. He sees the Nebraska Territory gain statehood and discovers Love when it steps off a Wells Fargo stage.Videos