[PDF.83us] The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America

The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America

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 | #1146234 in Books |  1998-03-15 |  1998-03-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.58 x6.00l,.64 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| ... and gives you a glimpse of what it was like for those who left Ireland during the famine and ...|By nancy hoesel|This book is compelling and gives you a glimpse of what it was like for those who left Ireland during the famine and came to the United States. I have three great, great grandparents who came during this time and one even came on one of the ships mentioned in th|From Library Journal|The defining moments of Irish history are studded with arrivals (St. Patrick, Oliver Cromwell) and departures (St. Columbanus, James Joyce). In the 1840s the great arrival was the Potato Blight, and the even greater departure was the multitu

Between 1846 and 1851, more than one-million people--the potato famine emigrants--sailed from Ireland to America. Now, 150 years later, The Famine Ships tells of the courage and determination of those who crossed the Atlantic in leaky, overcrowded sailing ships and made new lives for themselves, among them the child Henry Ford and the twenty-six-year-old Patrick Kennedy, great-grandfather of John F. Kennedy. Edward Laxton conducted five years of research in Ireland an...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America   |  Edward Laxton. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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