famine, 1845-1852

Presents an overview of the Irish potato famine of 1845-50, describing the blight on this vital food source, and including information on the political and personal impact it had on Ireland and its people.

Kit Byrne's family unity is tested in nineteenth-century rural Ireland when the potato famine hits and wealthy landowner Lord Fraser drives them from their home, launching a series of tragedies that separates Kit from her family as they try to escape to a better life.

Presents facts about life on the famine ship "Dunbrody"--which carried Irish immigrants to America during the Great Famine in the nineteenth century--through fictional journal entries by a nine-year-old boy, and features pop-up illustrations, lift-flaps, and other props.

On his way from Ireland to America to escape the potato famine, young Fergus carves a shillelagh from his favorite blackthorn tree, and each St. Patrick's Day for generations, his story is retold by one of his descendants.

When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity helps her family and neighbors survive.