The St. Patrick's Day shillelagh

By Janet Nolan

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

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.