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1) Ellis Island
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Sweethearts since childhood, Ellie Hogan and her husband, John, are content on their farm in Ireland -- until John, a soldier for the Irish Republican Army, receives an injury that leaves him unable to work. Forced to take drastic measures in order to survive, Ellie does what so many Irish women in the 1920s have done and sails across a vast ocean to New York City to work as a maid for a wealthy socialite. Once there, Ellie is introduced to a world...
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In the bitter winter of 1847, leaving an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York. On board are hundreds of refugees, some of them optimistic, many more of them desperate. Among them are a maid with a devastating secret, the bankrupt Lord Merridith accompanied by his wife and children-and a killer stalking the decks, hungry for the vengeance that will bring absolution. This journey will see many lives end, while...
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Two Irish sisters emigrate to 1920s America and fall in love with the same man, a lobster fisherman from Maine. One sister marries him, the other moves in with them and when he drowns helps to raise the children, eventually becoming a newspaperwoman and finding love.
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"Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on whether guests are over and how much alcohol has been consumed. Eileen can't help but dream of a calmer life, in a better neighborhood. When Eileen meets Ed Leary, a scientist whose bearing is nothing like those of the men she grew up with, she thinks she's found the perfect...
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Maureen O'Reilly and her younger sister flee Ireland in hope of claiming the life promised to their father twenty years before. After surviving Ellis Island, Maureen learns that their benefactor, Colonel Wakefield, has died, and his family refuses to own his Civil War debt. Alone, impoverished, and in danger of deportation, Maureen contrives to obtain employment in a prominent department store. But she soon discovers that the elegant façade hides...
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