In a hidden Ireland where fishermen and tenant farmers find solace
in their ancient faith, songs, stories, and communal celebrations,
young Honora Keeley and Michael Kelly wed and start a family.
Because they and their countrymen must sell both their catch and
their crops to pay exorbitant rents, potatoes have become their
only staple food.
But when blight destroys the potatoes three times in four years, a
callous government and uncaring landlords turn a natural disaster
into The Great Starvation that will kill one million. Honora and
Michael vow their children will live. The family joins two million
other Irish refugees--victims saving themselves--in the emigration
from Ireland.
Danger and hardship await them in America. Honora, her
unconventional sister Maire, and their seven sons help transform
Chicago from a frontier town to the "City of the Century." The boys
go on to fight in the Civil War and enlist in the cause of
Ireland's freedom.
Spanning six generations and filled with joy, sadness, and heroism,
GALWAYBAY sheds brilliant light on the ancestors of today's
forty-four million Irish Americans--and is a universal story you
will never forget."
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