From Scientific American
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.
Review
(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.
