Ballykilcline Rising: From Famine Ireland to Immigrant America

by Mary Lee Dunn and Mary Lee Dunn Maguire

In 1847, in the third year of Ireland's Great Famine and the thirteenth year of their rent strike against the Crown, hundreds of tenant farmers in Ballykilcline, County Roscommon, were evicted by the Queen's agents and shipped to New York. Mary Lee Dunn tells their story in this meticulously researched book. Using numerous Irish and U.S. sources and with descendants' help, she traces dozens of the evictees to Rutland, Vermont, as railroads and marble...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558496599
• ISBN13: 9781558496590
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher