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Under the hawthorn tree

children of the famine

by Marita Conlon-McKenna

1990 153 pages eng

During the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s, three children are left alone and in danger of being sent to the workhouse, so they set out to find the great-aunts they remember from their mother's stories.

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