![]() The search for survival is not merely that, but also a search to sustain family loyalty and preserve memory.' - The Big Guide to Irish Children's Books 'the powerful story of the survival of three children, alone, and against the odds.' - Publishing News 'Marita Conlon-Mckenna handles this appalling event in Irish history sensitively but never compromising the truth of hardship and human suffering.' - Jane Murphy - '(A) vivid picture of the Famine era' 'fascinating and terrifying' -Evening Echo Book Description:īook Description Paperback. In Under the Hawthorn Tree, Marita Conlon-McKenna confronted these problems with honesty and simplicity: the plight of three children becomes a kind of pilgrimage. Some sense of an ending would need to be provided. The intense and horrible suffering and disease would need to be confronted truthfully but without lurid sensationalism. The traditional passivity linked to ideas about famine would need to be overcome by some kind of action. Writing about the Famine posed new challenges to writers for children. ![]() historically true and fictionally vivid.' - The Sunday Times 'A great survival saga' - Irish Independent Irish Independent 'The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s has received more fictional treatment than almost any other period in Irish historical children's books. ![]() 'makes a whole part of our history come alive, while it still remains a thrilling adventure tale.' - RTE Guide RTE Guide '. ![]()
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