Misneach: A Story of Kidnap, Enslavement & Colonialism by D. Walsh Gilbert

So begins the story of Aoife McGuire, a midwife in Ireland in 1650, kidnapped by Oliver Cromwell's men, and sent into the New World. The next years of her life trace the harrowing trajectory of many others stolen for the benefits of nationalism and economic superiority. Their voices are finally heard in the poetic imagery of one young woman's unconscionable capture and the bravery-the misneach-needed to survive. 

"In Misneach: A Story of Kidnap, Enslavement & Colonialism, D. Walsh Gilbert contexualizes a narrative about the residues of British colonization. The verse-story structure allows a reader to engage with harsh historical truths through the medium of poetry by creating the fictional narrative about a young Irish midwife, Aoife McGuire, who is abducted in Ireland in 1650 and forced to work on a plantation on the island of Montserrat and then later in Colonial New England. Gilbert could've written in prose form, but narrative poetry provides deeper layers and points of context." - Sean Frederick Forbes

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