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All standing : the remarkable story of the Jeanie Johnston, the legendary Irish famine ship
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- ISBN: 9781451610130
- ISBN: 1451610130
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xvi, 238 p. : map ; 24 cm. - Edition: 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
- Publisher: New York : Free Press, 2013.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852 Ireland -- Emigration and immigration United States -- Emigration and immigration Jeanie Johnston (Ship) |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Fraser Lake Public Library | 941.501 MIL (Text) | 35195000262599 | Upper Floor - Non Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Citing the high number of Irish citizens who died from poor conditions on ships carrying them to North America away from the harrowing 19th-century Irish Potato Famine, the story of an infant born at sea documents the efforts of crewpeople and thousands of passengers to secure everyone's survival through acts of heroism and human decency. - Baker & Taylor
The story of an infant born at sea highlights the efforts of crewpeople and passengers to secure the survival of Irish citizens fleeing from the potato famine through acts of heroism and human decency. - Simon and Schuster
The dramatic true tale of a boy born at sea during the Irish Potato famine and the âcoffin shipâ that saved him and thousands of others from one of the worldâs greatest humanitarian crises.
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 motivationsâshame, familial obligation, and sometimes even greedâmore 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 âcoffin ships.â But in the face of horrific losses, a small ship named the Jeanie Johnston never lost a passenger. Shipwright John Munn, community leader Nicholas Donovan, Captain James Attridge, Dr. Richard Blennerhassett, and the efforts of a remarkable crew allowed thousands of people to find safety and fortune throughout the United States and Canada.
Why did these individuals succeed when so many others failed? What prompted them to act, when so many people preferred to do nothingâor worse? Using newspaper accounts, rare archival documents, and her own experience sailing as an apprentice aboard the recently re-created Jeanie Johnston, Kathryn Miles tells the story of these extraordinary people and the revolutionary milieu in which they set sail. The tale of each individual is remarkable in and of itself; read collectively, their stories paint a unique portrait of bravery in the face of a new world order. Theirs is a story of ingenuity and even defiance, one that recounts a struggle to succeed, to shake the mantle of oppression and guilt, to endure in the face of unimaginable hardship. On more than one occasion, stewards of the ship would be accused of acting out of self-interest or greed. Nevertheless, what these menâand their shipâaccomplished over the course of eleven voyages to North America was the stuff of legend.
Interwoven in their tale is the story of Nicholas Reilly, a baby boy born on the shipâs maiden voyage. The Reilly family climbed aboard the Jeanie Johnston in search of the American Dream. While they would find some version of that dream, it would not be without a struggleâone that would deposit Nicholas into a deeply controversial moment in American history. Against this backdrop, Miles weaves a thrilling, intimate narrative, chronicling the birth of a remarkable Irish-American family in the face of one of the planetâs greatest human rights atrocities.
