The Irish dresser
Subtitle: a story of hope during The Great Hunger (An Gorta Mor, 1845-1850)
By: by Cynthia G. Neale.
Publisher: White Mane Kids
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Shippensburg, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Famines -- Ireland -- Fiction.; Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.; Ocean travel -- Fiction.; Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852 -- Juvenile fiction.; Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: In the 1840's as the potato famine spreads throughout Ireland, thirteen-year-old Nora finds solace in the family's large wooden cupboard where she dreams of cakes and other good things and, when her father decides that they should set sail for America, the old cupboard helps make her dreams come true.