1800s Irish history
19th century Ireland
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Boat sea atlantic ocean
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Crowded ships better life
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Great Irish starvation
Historical difficulties plights
Immigrants to America
Information about hardship
Migration immigration emigration
Poor soil bad weather
Potato blight
Promised land
Studying Eire Ire in school
Travels to the USA
What happened during
Product details
- ISBN 9780747535003
- Weight: 215g
- Dimensions: 130 x 199mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 1997
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'A splendid book' - Irish Times
Between 1846 and 1851, the Great Famine claimed more than a million Irish lives. The Famine Ships tells the story of the courage and determination of those who crossed the Atlantic in leaky, overcrowded sailing ships and made new lives for themselves, among them William Ford, father of Henry Ford, and twenty-six-year-old Patrick Kennedy, great-grandfather of John F. Kennedy.
