Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York

by Tyler Anbinder

Book Overview

From the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, "a superb revisionist history" of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, using their "riveting and deeply personal stories" in and beyond New York exemplify the astonishing tenacity and improbable triumph of Irish America (Wall Street Journal).

In 1845, a fungus began to destroy Ireland's potato crop,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031656480X
• ISBN13: 9780316564809
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.4"