03077cam a2200349 4500 531602372 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780446595162 0446595160 B001QDLIXI Amazon 15b5e455-aec9-4f44-a11b-4d0248400656 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 195989 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kelly, Mary Pat. Galway Bay [Libby]. Grand Central Publishing, 2009. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 611kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p><b>In the bestselling tradition of Frank Delaney, Colleen McCullough, and Maeve Binchy comes a poignant historical family saga set against the Famine.</b></p> <p><br /> 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.<br /> 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 .<br /> 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.<br /> 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.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/15B/5E4/55/GalwayBay9780446545075.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=15B5E455-AEC9-4F44-A11B-4D0248400656&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/15B/5E4/55/GalwayBay9780446545075.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=15B5E455-AEC9-4F44-A11B-4D0248400656&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/15B/5E4/55/GalwayBay9780446545075.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=15B5E455-AEC9-4F44-A11B-4D0248400656&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)