Galway Bay
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780594020721 (0594020727)
Publish date: February 9th 2009
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Pages no: 576
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Survival,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Irish Literature,
19th Century,
Ireland
Too cute for my tastes. Maybe I have read enough about the Irish Famine. Not much depth, rather a summary of prominent events from the Irish Potato Famine 1845-1848, subsequent emigration to America,travel from New Orleans to Chicago up the Mississippi, life in Chicago in the latter 1800s, the Irish...
Full review published here: http://www.brazenbookworm.com/2012/03/guest-review-galway-bay-by-mary-pat.html
As someone whose relatives came from Ireland to Chicago(Bridgeport) in the early 1900's, I loved this book. It sort of gave me a piece of what they had lived through..a number of the stories, particularly re: the treatment of the Irish were very similiar to stories my grandmother had told me.
I really enjoyed this one. It is a sweeping saga of the Kelly family who survives the potato famine in Ireland and makes a new life in Chicago. It is a bleak story at times but one of survival and human triumph as well. I found all the characters to be realistic and I really cared about them, partic...
Not perfect. It has its flaws. But it just seems so wrong to give it 4 stars. So---for all the things it taught me, for all the ways it made me feel, and for Mary Pat Kelly's 35 years of research, I have to give it the full 5 stars. Maybe I'll write more later, maybe I won't. By now I know better...
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