{"product_id":"briarhill-to-brooklyn-an-irish-familys-journey-to-freedom-and-opportunity-hardcover","title":"Briarhill to Brooklyn: An Irish Family's Journey to Freedom and Opportunity - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJack Bodkin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor three years \u003c\/strong\u003ea mysterious potato blight devastated Ireland's \u003cem\u003ecla-cháns\u003c\/em\u003e, townlands, and cities. Nearly a million died.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Was it the prospect of starvation, the snows of Black '47, or the fear of typhus that made the Bodkins leave? Or was it the dream of America's freedom and opportunity that drove the family from Galway onto an Irish coffin ship known as \u003cem\u003eCushlamachree\u003c\/em\u003e? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Their destination was Brooklyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e An unimaginable hurdle confronted the seven young Bodkin siblings, only days after docking in New York. Would the \"fever\" get them, too? But they managed to survive into adulthood as they were led by their two oldest brothers-Dominic and Martin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Dominic, a fledgling surgeon on the Alabama battlefields of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely, spends thirty-five years delivering and caring for thousands of Brooklyn babies. Martin, a Civil War veteran, and later an ironmonger with his own shop, ultimately is the progenitor of a large family of New York Bodkins. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eBriarhill to Brooklyn\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel, grounded in facts, in which Jack Bodkin tells the story of his Irish Catholic family's 1848 migration from County Galway, Ireland, to Brooklyn, New York, in the era of the Irish Potato Famine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 434\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.13 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47411888488626,"sku":"9781736378724","price":42.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/2a4c1563e8ee0d19d52fc925642d74e7.webp?v=1778309651","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/briarhill-to-brooklyn-an-irish-familys-journey-to-freedom-and-opportunity-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}