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All Standing The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, the Legendary Irish Famine Ship recounts the journeys of this famous ship, her heroic crew, and the immigrants who were ferried between Ireland and North America. Spurred by a complex web of motivations'shame, familial obligation, and sometimes even greed'more than a million people attempted to flee the Irish famine. More than one hundred thousand of them would die aboard one of the five thousand aptly named "coffin ships." But in the face of horrific losses, a small ship named the Jeanie Johnston never lost a passenger. Shipwright…

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2 editions
  • Other · English · 2014
    Free Press · 9781451610161
  • Other · English · 2013
    Free Press · 238 pages · 9781451610130
HistoryHISTORYModern19th CenturyIreland, history, famine, 1845-1852Ireland, emigration and immigration