The keeners
by Maura D. Shaw · 2004
It is the first year of the potato famine. Ireland is dying. Margaret Meehan, who keens for the dead, cannot keen for an entire country, however. With her young husband, now wanted for murder, she sets out for a new life in America. And discovers the true soul of Ireland.
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