Galway Bay

TITLE: Galway Bay
AUTHOR: Mary Pat Kelly
PAGES: 551 pages
PUBLISHER:Published February 9th 2009 by Grand Central Publishing (first published January 22nd 2009)
ISBN:9780446579001
LANGUAGE: English
DESCRIPTION:

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 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 Máire; 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; GALWAYBAY sheds brilliant light on the ancestors of today's forty-four million Irish Americans--and is a universal story you will never forget....more ( # )

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