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Condition
Like New: A book that has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust ...
Country/Region of Manufacture
Ireland
ISBN
9780873514491

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN-10
0873514491
ISBN-13
9780873514491
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2398941

Product Key Features

Book Title
Forgetting Ireland
Number of Pages
271 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / General, Emigration & Immigration, United States / 19th Century, General
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Bridget Connelly
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
15.9 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-013548
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
977.6/4320049162
Synopsis
Forgetting Ireland is both a history and mystery, a story of western Ireland's Connemara coast and of Graceville, a small town in western Minnesota. In 1880, at the height of Ireland's second famine, a ship of paupers was sent from Galway to take up land granted them by a Catholic bishop in Minnesota. There they encountered the worst winter in the state's history and nearly froze to death in shanties on the prairie. National and international newspapers featured their plight as the welfare scandal of the year, and priests and politicians traded accusations as to who was responsible. The immigrants were at last removed from the colony; their name became the town's shorthand for lying, drunken failures. By chance more than a century later, Bridget Connelly, who grew up in Graceville, discovers her Connemara past. As Connelly uncovers the deliberately suppressed history of her family's emigration, she exposes an old scandal that surrounded the settling of the land around Graceville, one that pitted Masons, Protestants, Germans, and Yankees against Irish Catholics -- and one that set lace-curtain Irish against the Connemara paupers. She also learns of an archbishop who was, according to farmer lore, 'worse than Jesse James'. In this compelling combination of history and memoir, Connelly tells stories of an epochal blizzard, a famous Irish bard, an infamous Irish woman pirate, feuding frontier communities, and an archbishop's questionable legacy. She also learns why her family tried so hard to forget Ireland.
LC Classification Number
F615.I6C66 2003

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