The Irish Dresser

By Cynthia G. Neale

Subjects: Ocean travel, Famine (Ireland : 1845-1852) fast (OCoLC)fst01353092, Fiction, Emigration and immigration, Juvenile fiction, History, Famines

Description: In the 1840's as the potato famine spreads throughout Ireland, thirteen-year-old Nora finds solace in the family's large wooden cupboard where she dreams of cakes and other good things and, when her father decides that they should set sail for America, the old cupboard helps make her dreams come true.