Briarhill to Brooklyn: An Irish Family's Journey to Freedom and Opportunity - Hardcover
by Jack Bodkin
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Language:EnglishPublisher:John S Bodkin JrISBN-13:9781736378724ISBN-10:1736378724UPC:9781736378724Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, World Literature, SagasBook Topic:Civil War Era, IrelandSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.13 inchesWeight:1.7417Product ID:SCSVFTHHPK
Briarhill to Brooklyn: An Irish Family's Journey to Freedom and Opportunity
For three years a mysterious potato blight devastated Ireland's cla-cháns, townlands, and cities. Nearly a million died.
Was it the prospect of starvation, the snows of Black '47, or the fear of typhus that made the Bodkins leave? Or was it the dream of America's freedom and opportunity that drove the family from Galway onto an Irish coffin ship known as Cushlamachree?
Their destination was...
Language:EnglishPublisher:John S Bodkin JrISBN-13:9781736378724ISBN-10:1736378724UPC:9781736378724Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, World Literature, SagasBook Topic:Civil War Era, IrelandSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.13 inchesWeight:1.7417Product ID:SCSVFTHHPK
Bodkin, Jack: - Jack Bodkin is a retired Certified Public accountant. Briarhill to Brooklyn is his first book. He was born in Brooklyn in 1947, and for the first two years of his life his family lived at 325 Clinton Avenue, about a hundred yards from his great-great-uncle Dominic's home at 290 Clinton. In 1950 the family moved to the post-World War II community of Merrick, Long Island. After...
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