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You Wouldn't Want to Sail on an Irish Famine Ship!: A Trip Across the Atlantic You'd Rather Not Make

Describes the potato famine that struck Ireland in the 1840s, and discusses what life was like on the ships that the Irish took to America in order to escape the famine.

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