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101) Irish stew!
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 7
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Dermot works on solving the mystery of Chicago's Haymarket Riot while Nuala struggles to help a Chicago Irish bigshot with the mark of death on him and the couple try to cope with the stress a premature birth places on their marriage.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1832, 57 young men from Ireland boarded a ship to America, leaving behind an impoverished country in hopes of a better life. Arriving healthy, all were dead in eight weeks. Did they all die due to a cholera pandemic as was widely believed? Or, were some of them murdered? Using the latest forensic and scientific investigative techniques, as well as historical detective work in Ireland and the U.S., modern detectives and experts will unravel this...
104) The ghosts of Duffy's Cut: the Irish who died building America's most dangerous stretch of railroad
Author
Publisher
Praeger Publishers
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In 1861, the winds of war blew through the United States. Jennie Hodgers, a young immigrant from Ireland, moved west to Illinois and soon had a new name and a new identity--Albert D. J. Cashier. Like many other young men, Albert joined the Union Army. Though the smallest soldier in his company, Albert served for nearly three years and fought in forty battles and skirmishes. When the war ended, Albert continued to live his life as a man. His identity...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
In this retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, a young Irish seamstress, employed by the wealthy Wellington family in 1880s New York City, tries to make good her father's boast that she can "practically spin straw into gold" despite the heavy price she is asked to pay.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1845, a fungus began to destroy Ireland's potato crop, triggering a famine that would kill one million Irish men, women, and children--and drive over one million more to flee for America. Ten years later, the United States had been transformed by this stupendous migration, nowhere more than New York: by 1855, roughly a third of all adults living in Manhattan were immigrants who had escaped the hunger in Ireland. These so-called "Famine Irish" were...
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