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1.Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
from Houghton Mifflin
Price: $9.95

Customer Review:
This book describes the Great Hunger in a balanced way. It discusses the repeated crop failures -- potatoes were the staple of the Irish diet, due to the tenant farming situation of the time. (Tenant farming resembles, to me, sharecropping in the American South.)
The book alternates between... more info

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2.My Dream of YouMy Dream of You
from Riverhead Trade
Price: $10.20

Customer Review:
This is a beautiful story, full of fascinating happenings, bittersweet richness, and of course the Irish Experience, which is a Hallmark of this writer.
Nuala O'Faolain is a magnificent writer, and this book makes a grand statement that she can write more than one great book. Her other book... more info

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3.The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849
from Penguin Group
Price: $11.56

Customer Review:
"By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young girl calling
'Michael, they have taken you away
For you stole Trevelyan's corn
So the young might see the morn'
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay..."
THE GREAT HUNGER is the definitive history of the Irish Potato Famine... more info

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4.[no image]Nory Ryan's Song
from Thorndike Press

Customer Review:
I am taking my children to my Grandfather's home town in Ireland and to visit distant cousins. I bought the book to give them an idea of my great grandparents struggles. We read the book in a day and moved to Maggie's Door the next day. We all fell in love with Nory Ryan.

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5.Maggie s DoorMaggie's Door
from Wendy Lamb Books
Price: $12.44

Customer Review:
A tribute to determination, fortitude, the staying spirit, "Maggie's Door" is a historical novel of the crossing of a microcosm of Irish from Maidin Bay to Galway to New York to Brooklyn to Maggie's Door.
The potato blight, which began in Ireland in 1845, continued for several years and was the... more info

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6.The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to AmericaThe Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America
from Holt Paperbacks
Price: $11.56

Customer Review:
Interesting history/topic but very, very dryly written with much redundancy and minute details that distract from the history. There is a tendency to go back and forth from one period to another and not stay on task chronologically, which I found distracting. Some of the writing itself seemed... more info

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7.Gracelin O MalleyGracelin O'Malley
from NAL Trade
Price: $11.86

Customer Review:
Gracelin is very much apart of the poor Irish. Her family marries her to Bram Donnelly an English Lord. He is an abusive drunk. She bares him a daughter. During the potato famine she feeds the poor and suffers Bram's wrath. Gracelin, Sean, Morgan, and Mary Kate weave this story of Ireland's plight.... more info

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8.All Rivers to the Sea (Galway Chronicles, Book 4)All Rivers to the Sea (Galway Chronicles, Book 4)
from Thomas Nelson

Customer Review:
Things were looking up in the fall of 1844 for the residence of Ballyknockanor. Kate is just about to pop with her and Joseph's son. Colonel Mahon is dead. And Joseph, still thinking he's a fugitive, has arrived back in London. But all is not well. Personal tragedy awaits the Burkes and the English... more info

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9.The Law of Dreams: A NovelThe Law of Dreams: A Novel
from Random House Trade Paperbacks
Price: $11.16

Customer Review:
ARGH!
Depressing, explicit descriptions of death, violence, cruelty to animals and people, betrayal and hopelessness.... Only because it was my book club's selection did I finish this book.

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10.The Great Irish Potato FamineThe Great Irish Potato Famine
from The History Press
Price: $24.05

Customer Review:
I just finished reading Mr. Donnelly's book. Admittedly it is my first one on this subject so I am not sure how it compares to others. The book it well researched, organized and written however, it wasn't what I was looking for. I thought it was interesting, however, that the British government did... more info

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