Title: The St. Patrick's Day shillelagh
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.
Subjects: Irish Americans, Storytelling, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Saint Patrick's Day, Emigration and immigration, History, Immigration and emigration, Children's fiction, Irish americans, fiction, Storytelling, fiction, Emigration and immigration, fiction, Ireland, fiction
Places: Ireland
Time periods: Famine, 1845-1852