The St. Patrick's Day shillelagh

By Janet Nolan

Subjects: Ireland, fiction, Emigration and immigration, Saint Patrick's Day, History, Juvenile fiction, Storytelling, fiction, Irish Americans, Storytelling, Fiction, Emigration and immigration, fiction, Children's fiction, Immigration and emigration, Irish americans, fiction

Description: On his way from Ireland to America to escape the potato famine, young Fergus carves a shillelagh from his favorite blackthorn tree, and each St. Patrick's Day for generations, his story is retold by one of his descendants.