A feature at the end of the book gives brief biographical sketches of many famous Americans of Irish background. It’s filled with facts and true-to-life details of the O’Connor family’s journey on the famine ship Dunbrody. This volume is designed in a form to suggest Michael’s scrapbook. The story is told from the point of view of Michael O’Connor, a nine-year-old boy who, with his family, endures many hardships before arriving in America. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Life on a Famine Ship: A Journal of the Irish Famine 1845. This book’s imaginative use of paper engineering shows household interiors in an Irish country village, a typical sailing ship that carried Irish from their homeland, and other fascinating details that illustrate nineteenth-century Irish life. Seeking a better life, those who could make the journey fled to America, Canada, England, Australia, and New Zealand.
Here, in words and pictures-including imaginative pop-up illustrations-is the story of the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, and the resulting hardship that caused widespread death and eventual emigration of thousands of Irish from their homeland.
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