The story we carry in our bones
Subtitle: Irish history for Americans
By: written by Juilene Osborne-McKnight ; illustrated by Mara Kate McKnight
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Gretna
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781455620715; 9781455620722
Subjects: Irish Americans; Irish; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Knock wood and light the pumpkin: your ancient ancestors are closer than you think; title: Prehistoric Ireland: megaliths and mystery; title: The origins of the Celts; title: Life in ancient Ireland; title: The four cycles of storytelling; title: Keeping faith at the crossroad: Celtic Christianity; title: Druids first Christians later: Druidic beliefs; title: Christianity comes to Ireland; title: Monastic life: early universities; title: From seafaring to sea change: how Irish Christianity became Roman; title: Gone Viking; title: No one leaves your table hungry: invasion, starvation, and emigration; title: Eight hundred years of invasions; title: Oliver Cromwell: the devil in Ireland; title: The Scots-Irish migration; title: A diet of potatoes: conditions ripe for disaster; title: An gorta mor: the great hunger; title: Away away to Amerikay; title: Irish roots and rising Irish: the Irish become American; title: Pre-famine Irish Catholic immigrants; title: The incoming tide; title: Our ancestors "get to work"; title: Politics as a ladder: from Tammany Hall to the White House; title: Fighting for Amerikay: the Irish in the Civil War; title: The parish and the Catholic Church: helping the Irish to rise; title: Meanwhile back at the ranch: rising Irish and bold Fenian men; title: Diaspora.