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Mary Pat Kelly
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Chrissie's Books
Chrissie's Books rated it 13 years ago
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...
Sarah (The Brazen Bookworm)
Sarah (The Brazen Bookworm) rated it 13 years ago
Full review published here: http://www.brazenbookworm.com/2012/03/guest-review-galway-bay-by-mary-pat.html
A Book and A Review #2
A Book and A Review #2 rated it 14 years ago
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.
melpomene
melpomene rated it 14 years ago
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...
The Drift Of Things
The Drift Of Things rated it 15 years ago
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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