Recounts the tale of a family, a young married couple, an uncle and two cousins of the groom, who travel from County Sligo to Dublin during the Famine to take ship for Canada. Drawn from several sources and embellished by Mangan, the book enthrals the readers with the day-to-day grind of surviving the vicissitudes of watching the village die, watching shipmates die, watching one's bride die. It is a book to help today's readers, especially those of Irish descent, in these years of commemoration of the Great Famine (1845 - 1850) to understand the pathos of a devasted country. Also available in French as La Traverse du Naparima.
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The author has written a book that he hopes will break the silence surrounding Grosse Ile, the scene of a mass tragedy in 1847. Using background material from an Irish school teacher's diary, James Mangan has detailed the incredible hardhips of the ocean voyage and holocaust of Grosse Ile in a fictionalized form - a document of horror.
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(Brother James' work) is unashamedly an act of pietas, an act to which the present reviewer can wholeheartedly subscribe. The story of the Famine ships is a story that must be retold as an important part of both Ireland's and Canada's history. -- Dr. Anne Dooley, Professeur of Celtic Studies at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, in Book Reviews of the Catholic Register, Toronto, 1982.
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