Galway Bay Mary Pat Kelly Paperback

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• Galway Bay available on November 04 2023 from BiggerBooks for 10.71
  
• Galway Bay available on September 15 2018 from Indigo for 21.0
  
• ISBN bar code 9780446697101 ξ2 registered November 04 2023
  
• ISBN bar code 9780446697101 ξ3 registered February 22 2017
  
• ISBN bar code 9780446697101 ξ1 registered July 03 2012
  
• Product category is Galway Bay, 9780446697101, Book, Textbook Book

• Sku # 9780446697101R
  
• Sku # 978044669710
  

Because they and their countrymen must sell both their catch and their crops to pay exorbitant rents, potatoes have become their only staple food.But when blight destroys the potatoes three times in four years, a callous government and uncaring landlords turn a natural disaster into The Great Starvation that will kill one million. Honora and Michael vow their children will live. The family joins two million other Irish refugees--victims saving themselves--in the emigration fromIreland.Danger and hardship await them inAmerica. Honora, her unconventional sister Máire, and their seven sons help transformChicagofrom a frontier town to the City of the Century. The boys go on to fight in the Civil War and enlist in the cause ofIreland''s freedom.Spanning six generations and filled with joy, sadness, and heroism,GALWAYBAYsheds brilliant light on the ancestors of today''s forty-four million Irish Americans--and is a universal story you will never forget.

^ Galway Bay Mary Pat Kelly Paperback ISBN 9780446697101 (revised Jul 2012)
^ Kelly, Mary Pat (2015). Galway Bay, Grand Central Publishing. BiggerBooks. ISBN 9780446697101 (revised Nov 2023)
^ Galway Bay Indigo. ISBN 9780446697101 (revised Sep 2018)