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Famines Ireland History 19th century Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet) 1804-1889 Ireland Emigration and immigration Ireland Emigration and immigration History 19th century Ireland History Famine, 1845-1852 Ireland History Famine, 1845-1852 Juvenile literature Irish Migrations History 19th century Jeanie Johnston (Ship) Mathew, Theobald 1790-1856 United States Emigration and immigrationAnbinder, Tyler
Summary: "In 1845, a fungus began to destroy Ireland's potato crop, triggering a famine that would kill one million Irish men, women, and children--and drive over one million more to flee for America. Ten years later, the United States had been transformed by this stupendous migration, nowhere more than New York: by 1855, roughly a third of all adults living in Manhattan were immigrants who had escaped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Summary: "The remarkable story of the mission that inspired a nation to donate massive relief to Ireland during the potato famine and began America's tradition of providing humanitarian aid around the world More than 5,000 ships left Ireland during the great potato famine in the late 1840s, transporting the starving and the destitute away from their stricken homeland. The first vessel to sail in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 PULMiles, Kathryn
Summary: The dramatic true tale of a boy born at sea during the Irish Potato famine and the "coffin ship" that saved him and thousands of others from one of the world's greatest humanitarian crises.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5081 MILBartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Summary: The story of the Great Irish Famine, through the eyes and memories of the Irish people. Tells how they lived, why their lives depended on the potato, how they dreaded the workhouse, and how they feared and defied the landlord who collected the rent and evicted them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 941.5081 BARKelly, John
Summary: Describes the Great Irish Potato Famine that began in 1845 and discusses how the combined forces of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance started a disaster that killed twice as many people as died during the American Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1982