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Galway Bay

Galway Bay

Kelly, Mary Pat

Paperback

General FictionHistorical Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0446697109
ISBN13: 9780446697101
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: Feb 28 2011
Pages: 576
Weight: 2.00
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In the bestselling tradition of Frank Delaney, Colleen McCullough, and Maeve Binchy comes a poignant historical family saga set against the Famine.

In a hidden Ireland where fishermen and tenant farmers find solace in their ancient faith, songs, stories, and communal celebrations, young Honora Keeley and Michael Kelly wed and start a family. 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 from Ireland.

Danger and hardship await them in America. Honora, her unconventional sister Mv ire, and their seven sons help transform Chicago from a frontier town to the City of the Century. The boys go on to fight in the Civil War and enlist in the cause of Ireland's freedom.

Spanning six generations and filled with joy, sadness, and heroism, Galway Bay sheds brilliant light on the ancestors of today's forty-four million Irish Americans--and is a universal story you will never forget.

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