Hungry for Home by Cole Moreton

Hungry for Home by Cole Moreton

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This narrative follows the journey made by a Blasket Island family to mainland Ireland and America. It uncovers the contrast between those who went to America and made new lives of luxury for themselves, and those who stayed in County Kerry, continuing to live almost as their forefathers did.

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Hungry for Home by Cole Moreton

For hundreds of years the Irish Island of Great Blasket was home to a community of people who lived without gas, electricity or running water. In 1953 life there became too hard and the island was evacuated. An extraordinary migration took place, the island community relocating almost wholesale to an obscure suburb of an ordinary town in Massachusetts, USA. One family provides the human focus and emotional core to this wider story of emigration. Ceit Kearney stayed in Ireland when her two brothers made the epic journey to America. In their last years they share stories of lives geographically and culturally divided by the Atlantic.
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ISBN 13 9780670880126
ISBN 10 0670880124
Title Hungry for Home
Author Cole Moreton
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 2000-03-02
Number of pages 304
Prizes Short-listed for Mail on Sunday / John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2001
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.