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The keeners

Maura D. Shaw

2004278 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2004
first published
  • 2004Medallion Press · 278 pages · ENGISBN 9781932815153

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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