Out of Ireland
Wernicke, Marian O'Shea2023
Book
In the late 1860s in Bantry, Ireland, sixteen-year-old Eileen O'Donovan is forced by her family to marry an older widower whom she barely knows and does not love. Her brother Michael, at age nineteen, becomes involved with the outlawed Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret organization dedicated to the violent overthrow of British rule in Ireland. Their fates intertwine when they each decide to emigrate to America, where both tragedy and happiness await them. This is a coming-of age story of a brother and sister in an Ireland still under the harsh rule of the British that brings alive the story of our ancestors who braved the dangers of immigration in order to find a better life for themselves and their families.
Main title:
Out of Ireland / Marian O'Shea Wernicke.
Author:
Wernicke, Marian O'Shea, author
Work:
Imprint:
Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press, 2023.©2023
Collation:
xii, 306 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9781647423995 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
176021