Full name: The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America

Author: Edward Laxton Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780805058444 0805058443

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 and interviewed the emigrants' descents in the U.S. Portraits of people, ships, and towns, as well as facsimile passenger lists and tickets, are among the fascinating memorabilia in The Famine Ships. Similar books: The Great Hunger by Cecil Woodham-Smith Paddy's Lament by Thomas Gallagher The Famine Plot by Tim Pat Coogan Irish History For Dummies by Mike Cronin Emigrants and Exiles by Kerby A. Miller The Great Shame by Thomas Keneally The Story of the Irish Race by Seumas MacManus The Transformation of Ireland by Diarmaid Ferriter Fractured Emerald: Ireland by Emily Hahn The IRA by Tim Pat Coogan The Graves Are Walking by John Kelly Irish Freedom by Richard English All Standing by Kathryn Miles Armed Struggle by Richard English Black Potatoes by Susan Campbell Bartoletti