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Under the hawthorn tree by Marita Conlon-McKenna · Booklabria

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Under the hawthorn tree

HistoryChildren's fiction

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First published: 1990
Editions: 7 in 2 languages

Synopsis

During the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s, three children are left alone and in danger of being sent to the workhouse, so they set out to find the great-aunts they remember from their mother's stories.

Subjects: History
Children's fiction
Brothers and sisters
Parent and child
Ireland
Famines
Set in: Ireland
Time: 1837-1901; Famine, 1845-1852

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7 in 2 languages

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