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How I survived the Irish famine
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Wilson, Laura |
In 1847, during the Great Famine, twelve-year-old Mary Flynn keeps a journal of life and death among Ireland's tenant farmers. |
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The Irish potato famine
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Edward F. Dolan |
Discusses the potato famine that devastated Ireland in the nineteenth century and led to a widespread immigration to the United States. |
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The Preacher and the Prelate
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Patricia Byrne |
This is the extraordinary story of an audacious fight for souls on famine-ravaged Achill Island off Ireland's Atlantic coast during the nineteenth century. Religious ferment swept across Ireland in t… |
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Streets of gold
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Gare Thompson |
A boy experiences the Irish potato famine during the "Black Year" of 1847 and prepares to join his father, who emigrated from Ireland to the United States. |
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The Irish Dresser
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Cynthia G. Neale |
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 … |
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The Hunger - The Diary of Phyllis McCormack, Ireland 1845-1847 (My Story)
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Carol Drinkwater |
It's 1845 and blight has destroyed the precious potato crop leaving Ireland starving. Phyllis works hard to support her struggling family, but when her mother's health deteriorates she sets off in se… |
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