Books by Padraig McLoughlin (1)
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Only the Stones Never Die by Padraig McLoughlin EN
IrelandDescription:
On the 14th June 1894, about 400 people, many of them teenagers, were about to set off for Scotland to work picking potatoes. An annual event, the young people would travel to the west of Scotland to stay and work for up to six months. That year, it is believed that a greater number of first-timers were travelling, due to a poor potato harvest at home the previous year, and the families desperately needed their income. As the large wooden-hulled sailing boat approached Westport Quay, its passengers caught their first sight of the large steamer, which would take them to Scotland. They rushed to... continue