The St. Patrick's Day shillelagh
By: Janet Nolan ; illustrated by Ben F. Stahl.
Contributors: Stahl, Ben, 1910-1987, ill.
Publisher: A. Whitman & Co.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Morton Grove, Ill
Language: eng
Subjects: Irish Americans -- Juvenile fiction.; Irish Americans -- Fiction.; Storytelling -- Fiction.; Saint Patrick's Day -- Fiction.; Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.; Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852 -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: On his way from Ireland to America to escape the potato famine, young Fergus carves a shillelagh from his favorite blackthorn tree, and each St. Patrick's Day for generations, his story is retold by one of his descendants.