Briarhill to Brooklyn
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Author
Published
[Wheeling, West Virginia?] : John S. Bodkin, Jr.?, 2021.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
423 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Status
Holy Cross - Adult Fiction
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F BODK
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Published
[Wheeling, West Virginia?] : John S. Bodkin, Jr.?, 2021.
Language
English
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Briarhill to Brooklyn, 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. 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 a ship? Their destination was Brooklyn. 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--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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Bodkin, J. (2021). Briarhill to Brooklyn . John S. Bodkin, Jr.?.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bodkin, Jack. 2021. Briarhill to Brooklyn. John S. Bodkin, Jr.?.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bodkin, Jack. Briarhill to Brooklyn John S. Bodkin, Jr.?, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Bodkin, Jack. Briarhill to Brooklyn John S. Bodkin, Jr.?, 2021.
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