The Irish in America
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: March 17, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780786885435
Subjects: Minority Studies - Ethnic American; History - General History; History; History: World; United States - General; Emigration & Immigration; History / General; General; Irish Americans
First sentence: THE ROADS and lanes of Ireland were choked with the poor and the hungry when Patrick Kennedy, the twenty-six-year-old son of a farming family in County Wexford, decided to join the Irish exodus to America.