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Plentiful Country The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York

Tyler Anbinder

From the award-winning author of In 1845, a fungus began to destroy Ireland’s potato crop, triggering a famine that would kill one million Irish men, women, and children—and drive over one million more to flee for America. Ten years later, the United States had been transformed by this stupendous m...

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Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis

Described as a vivid and tough read, focusing on Irish immigration to New York and relevant to the speaker's ancestry.

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And then for St. Patrick's Day, Plentiful Country, The Great Potato Famine Making of Irish New York. This is personal to me because my ancestors came over from County Cabin to Brooklyn. And this is a...

— Episode: Presidential Politics; Post-State of the...

Episode: Presidential Politics; Post-State of the Union Gaf...

Described as a vivid and tough read, focusing on Irish immigration to New York and relevant to the speaker's ancestry.

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And then for St. Patrick's Day, Plentiful Country, The Great Potato Famine Making of Irish New York. This is personal to me because my ancestors came over from County Cabin to Brooklyn. And this is a very vivid book, tough book. But if you really want to know about the Irish and St. Patrick's Day, Plentiful Country, Tyler and Binder.

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