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The Exile Breed: The Pitiless Epic of the Irish Famine Diaspora (The Irish Famine Series, Book 2 of 3) by [Charles Egan]

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'The Exile Breed' is a story of the Irish Famine in Ireland, Canada, England and the USA.

The Famine intensified in 1847. Many left, but hunger and fever followed them. Thousands died in the Irish ghettoes of Liverpool, Manchester and London. Many more died in the ships on the Atlantic, in the emigrant hospitals of Quebec and Montreal, in the forests and along the back-roads of Canada, and in the slums of New York and other American cities.

Those who survived went on to build new lives in the lands of the Irish Diaspora.

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Press Reviews"Famine Novel likened to Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath." Connaught Telegraph."A vital reminder of the fragility of life, love and survival." Irish Post.Reader Reviews.Bangorstyle. So beautifully written.Barbara. Brilliant and harrowing.Bridgid. Absolutely terrific trilogy. Colin. Best books I have ever read.Heather. Raw beauty that holds such tragedy.Crow Mother. Profound, intelligent and factual. Best read in years.Devonia. This is a Homerun!Anna. Captures the beauty of love in all its aspects in every single word.

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10 years of research. 15 years in the writing.The Killing Snows. The Exile Breed. Cold is the Dawn.The defining novels of the Great Irish Famine.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07RTYKL9F
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 12, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3808 KB
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CHARLES EGAN was born in Nottingham, England of Irish parents.
When he was five, the family returned to Ireland, as his father had been appointed Resident Medical Superintendent of St. Luke’s, a psychiatric hospital in Clonmel, in County Tipperary.
Every summer they visited his father’s family’s farm, outside Kiltimagh in County Mayo for a month. Charles’ grandmother and uncles spent many evenings, talking about family and local history. It was probably from this, that he became so interested in history.
The family subsequently moved to County Wicklow, where he initially attended the De La Salle Brothers school in Wicklow town. He then went to Clongowes Wood College (James Joyce’s alma mater) where he sat his Intermediate and Leaving Certificate examinations.
He studied Commerce in University College Dublin, graduating in 1973.
After an initial career in the private sector, including Marubeni Dublin, (where he met his future wife, Carmel), he joined the Industrial Development Authority (IDA) in Dublin. After a few years, the desire to be his own boss, led him to resign and set up his own business in London, which he ran for 40 years, before returning to Ireland in 2015.
Apart from business, his main interests are history and international travel, both of which he has covered extensively.
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10 years of research.15 years in the writing.
The Killing Snows. The Exile Breed. Cold is the Dawn.
The defining novels of the Great Irish Famine.
Charles Egan was born in Nottingham, England of Irish parents.
When he was five, the family returned to Ireland, as his father had been appointed Resident Medical Superintendant of St. Lukes, a psychiatric hospital in Clonmel, in County Tipperary.
Every summer they visited his father’s family’s farm, outside Kiltimagh in County Mayo for a month. Charles’ grandmother and uncles spent many evenings, talking about family and local history. It was probably from this, that he became so interested in history.
The family subsequently moved to County Wicklow, where he initially attended the De La Salle Brothers school in Wicklow town. He then went to Clongowes Wood College (James Joyce’s alma mater) where he sat his Intermediate and Leaving Certificate examinations.
He studied Commerce in University College Dublin, graduating in 1973.
After an initial career in the private sector, including Marubeni Dublin, (where he met his future wife, Carmel), he joined the Industrial Development Authority (IDA) in Dublin. After a few years, the desire to be his own boss, led him to resign and set up his own business, which has now been running for 30 years.
Apart from business, his main interests are history and international travel, both of which he has covered extensively.
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Connie Pullum

And the sadness continues...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 31, 2022

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Book two continues the horrific story of famine, fever and a determined family to survive. I have grown attached to Luke and Winnie's story. The only thing I am not a fan of is the lack of description at times. I will complete the series and hope there is a light for Irish people.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 2, 2022

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The Exile breed explains why everyone you meet seems to have Irish heritage. It's a hard sad truth of a people desimmated by famine, disease and dispersal through the world as they struggle to survive. It's a wonder anyone survived.

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Julie

A notable achievement

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 29, 2017

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This second novel in Charles Egan's great Irish famine trilogy provides yet another breathtaking sweep of the historical events that led to the mass migrations of the Irish to North America and England, and to the deaths of over a million by disease and starvation, in the late 1840s and beyond. Ireland's population is estimated to have diminished by up to one quarter as a result of the famine. This is a story with enormous impact in world history, given the scope of human suffering, the diaspora that followed, and the political changes that propelled the emergence of the modern Irish state. The subject has tended to remain somewhat obscure in literature today, in light, perhaps of the many notable cataclysms that followed in the twentieth century. But the author brings it back to life with great perspicacity, self-restraint and attention to historical detail.

Egan faces the considerable task of attempting to encapsulate, in the tale a single extended family from Mayo, the full impact of that cataclysm. His is one of the fortunate families, well educated and therefore somewhat shielded, at least for a time, from the extremes of hunger, typhus, and brutality that emerged from the persistent failure of the potato crops in 1846 and beyond. But the family cannot long avoid the impact of these forces. Luke, one of the story's main protagonists, has already sailed off to work in the Canadian timber industry in a notorious "coffin ship," riddled with typhus, while his family at home struggles with a worsening situation. Luke's North American story, from the woods of Quebec to the densely teeming streets of New York City, is one of the three branches of the diverging plot. Other family members have moved to England where the increasingly speculative "Railway Mania" of the 1840s, propelled by the relentless demands of the Industrial Revolution, is in full swing. Irish entrepreneurs import immigrant labor from counties like Mayo to work under squalid conditions and at bare subsistence wage levels. The predictable bursting of the mania leads to predictable consequences, which I presume will play out to a greater extent in the third book, "Cold is the Dawn."

Egan manages to incorporate much of the human, political, moral and economic complexities of the era without being heavy handed or didactic. He does not give in to the temptation of easy or simplistic characterizations of the events of that period. The plot line moves along with a kind of breathless inevitability that leaves one both intensely curious about what comes next, and yearning for resolution of the deep tensions inherent in the story. But the famine lasted for years, and the recurring, accumulated horrors of its flow can perhaps give us but a glimpse of the kind of metamorphoses that emerge from great, transformational historical events. The book succeeds in being both deeply philosophical and compelling historical fiction. A notable achievement. I look forward to reading the third book!

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Shari and Tom Sinclair

Good read, enjoyed immensely

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 4, 2022

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Was an easy read, had a lot of facts I didn't know about the Irish famine, the immigration, evictions. Unbelievable how the English and the rest of the world ignored the helplessness that happened.

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marie sweeney

Couldn't put it down!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 16, 2022

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Easy read. Wonderful story as part of Irish history. Some romance, many tragic circumstances. Must read as 1 of a trilogy.

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Ronald E. Von Stetina

This really happened - and you think you've got it tough!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 4, 2020

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Well written narrative and too real for words. If you do not feel sorry for these people something is wrong with you. It is so graphic you will feel their pain and suffering...and it is not FAKE NEWS! Everyone should read this series of books. This reality is still with us in parts of this world. Count your blessings when you read this and pray for those who are needy.

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Karen

Not simply a famine

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 12, 2018

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The second in a trilogy by Charles Egan that should be read by all who claim Irish heritage. It sheds light on life during the famine years and holds nothing back, and I am convinced more than ever it wasn't a famine, but a genocide! It is a bit repetitious of the first book, The Killing Snows, (that is why I gave it 4 and not 5 stars), however, this allows it to stand alone. I am now reading the 3rd of the trilogy, Cold is the Dawn, which follows one of the lead characters to settle in America and support the parents he was forced to leave in Ireland.

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Catherine

Let the truth be told

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 29, 2019

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This is the second book in Charles Egan's Trilogy. I just finished reading it and have ordered the third book. I learned things I never knew about Irish History. Stories that were never told. That part of Irish History was worse than I ever imagined. To think those dear people suffered like that is chilling. To think my maternal Grandmother’s parents lived through that is heartbreaking. Such a tragic time.
Thank you Charles Egan for telling the story.
I just finished Charles Egans third book in the trilogy. Well done Mr. Egan!

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Annecee

A very worthy five stars.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 12, 2017

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Wonderful, wonderful second book by Charles Egan on the life of the Ryan family during the Irish Famine years. I would recommend that anyone with Irish roots or interested in Irish history should read this series of books. My own ancestors left Ireland during the famine years and I always knew life was hard for them but I never realised just how difficult life was with no work, no money, no food, dreadful weather, fevers and unscrupulous landlords. I felt very emotional reading these books, as the Ryan family, in my mind, became my family. I am now looking forward to reading the third book in the series and hoping that life becomes easier for the family but I fear that there is more anguish ahead.

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Heather Croft

Second in the Trilogy of the Irish famine. So well researched.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 21, 2020

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This 2nd book its follow on have been amazingly well written and the research undertaken so well done. I have an extensive Irish family across Canada and the States and reviewing my genealogy I have realised what an impact the railways had on where they all landed and the hard life that they had. However it’s been very useful for my Scottish family as well. In the third book is also a great account of Bradford. This trilogy is good in a number of ways. One it teaches you about the famine, Two it gives you huge insight into the Industrial Revolution and the injustices to humans at that time and three it’s just a good read with nothing held back.

Amianne

Love these books

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 16, 2019

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I have just finished the last of the 3 books in this series and really hope there will be a fourth.
The story of the Irish dependence on the potato to survive takes up through famine, evictions,and emigrations. Following Michael`s family as they struggle through this harrowing time in Irish history gives the reader a better insight to what was happening at a personal level.

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Fish face

Powerful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 3, 2022

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This trilogy based on fact gives such an awareness of the history of anyone with Irish ancestry. Also the contribution that the starving Irish famine victims have made to British and American history. I understand now why the signs no Irish,no blacks and no dogs came about.

Helen B Hay

Irish Famine

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 21, 2019

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Charles Egan has done his job well, I had heard about the Irish Famine but, never in my wildest dreams did I think it was as bad as this. I had to put these books down at times as the story affected me so much, those poor, poor people, the story is so harrowing, and , ultimately it is about man's inhumanity to man. Why oh why is the subject not taught in schools, this is part of our history and should not be shied away from. Thankyou Mr Egan for your wonderful books everybody should read them.

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