irish

Second in a series of 5 books relating the Irish struggle from the time they left Ireland to finding their place in America. Each book is complete in itself, and one does not need to read the whole set.   In this book, our struggling widow find a place to live in the home of a rich ship builder and his adult daughter.  She is "pledged" to marry a childhood friend who is now an Irish

First in a series of 5 books,  this book shows the struggle of the Irish people who were dominated by the English.  They were not allowed to own property, teach their children, or speak their language.  They starved because their crops became the property of the King who used them to feed the English.  This book follows a young Irish widow and her struggle to find a new life and her pain on

Wow! This book raced me along and I wanted to keep reading all night!

Oh, this one has a spot on the keeper shelf!  I laughed and grabbed tissues all throughout it.  Trish Wylie made these characters very real and had me caring about them.

     Is there any greater joy for a confessed readaholic than when a nice big box from Amazon arrives at the door?  Only when said wonderful big box contains a book this reader has been anxiously awaiting for since the previous book in the series was published in 2005.  So it was with much fan-girl glee that I pounced on the final book in Morgan Llywelyn's Irish Century series, 1999.