During the famine in 1800s Ireland, fourteen-year-old Kit Byrne's father dies and she vows to do whatever it takes to keep her family together and alive, even if it's illegal. A desperate plan fails and her family is evicted. Now she races against time to get her family to Canada where they can start a new life.
Thirteen-year-old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in the midst of the deadly potato famine.
A narrative account of the nineteenth-century assassination of an Anglo-Irish landlord whose demise occurred at the height of the Great Irish Famine evaluates Mahon's possible role in the sufferings of his tenants and draws on the observations of powerful period leaders.
In the mid-1800s, Nory and her neighbor and friend, Sean, set out separately on a dangerous journey from famine-plagued Ireland, hoping to reach a better life in America.
Presents an account of the potato famine which struck Ireland in the late 1840s, resulting in the deaths of nearly one million people, and spurring the mass exodus of Irish people to North America.
Chronicles the history of Ireland and the events leading to the great potato famine of 1854 that killed about one million people and forced over two million to flee the country.
Thirteen-year-old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in the midst of the deadly potato famine.
Chronicles the events surrounding the famine in Ireland in the late 1840s and discusses how the famine caused thousands of Irish families to immigrate to the United States.
