Ireland

  • Auch, Mary Jane.
    Ashes of roses
    Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died.
    Educ. Res. PS 3551 .U34 A7 200
  • Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.
    Black potatoes : the story of the great Irish famine, 1845-1850
    Educ. Res. DA 950.7 .B37 2001
  • Alder, Elizabeth.
    Crossing the panther's path
    Sixteen-year-old Billy Caldwell, son of a British soldier and a Mohawk woman, leaves school to join Tecumseh in his efforts to prevent the Americans from taking any more land from the Indians in the Northwest Territory.
    Educ. Res. PS 3551 .L34 C7 200
  • Lyons, Mary E.
    Feed the children first : Irish memories of the Great Hunger
    Educ. Res. DA 950.7 .F45 2002
  • Byrd, Robert.
    Finn MacCoul and his fearless wife : a giant of a tale from Ireland
    With the help of his brave and clever wife, Finn MacCoul bests the fearsome giant, Cucullin.
    Educ. Res. GR 148 .F5 B9 1999
  • Giff, Patricia Reilly.
    Nory Ryan's song
    When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.
    Educ. Res. PS 3557 .I27 N6 200
  • Heneghan, James, 1930-
    The grave
    Thirteen-year-old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in the midst of the deadly potato famine.
    Educ. Res. PR 9199.3 .H46 G7 2
  • O'Hare, Colette.
    What do you feed your donkey on? : Rhymes from a Belfast childhood
    An illustrated collection of traditional rhymes, songs, and street chants from Belfast.
    Educ. Res. GR 147 .W56