Cover of The Famine Ships

The Famine Ships

by Edward Laxton

1996 250 pages eng

Between 1846 and 1851, more than one million people - the famine emigrants - sailed from Ireland to America. Never before had the world witnessed such an exodus. Now, 150 years later, The Famine Ships tells the story of the courage and determination of those who crossed the Atlantic in leaky, overcr…

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