Title: The keeners
First published: 2004
Description: It is the first year of the potato famine. Ireland is dying. Margaret Meehan, who keens for the dead, cannot keen for an entire country, however. With her young husband, now wanted for murder, she sets out for a new life in America. And discovers the true soul of Ireland.
Subjects: Fiction, Irish American women, Famines, Women, Fiction, historical, general, Ireland, fiction, Irish americans, fiction, New york (state), fiction
Places: Troy (N.Y.), Clare (Ireland), Ireland
LC classification: PS3619.H394 K44 2004