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Irish immigrant Molly Murphy, determined to start a career in New York City helping families in Europe find lost relatives in America, gets her foot in the door when she secures a job with tough old private detective Paddy Riley, but her focus changes when she arrives for work one morning to find her boss has been the victim of foul play.

"When her family falls into ruin in Victorian New York, Grace Knox must enter into a loveless marriage with Patrick Devlin to save them all, but everything changes when she falls for the mysterious and magical stable boy Diarmid"--OCLC.

Irish-born Kate Macauley is caught in the feud that is raging between the American farmers and the Irish immigrants in the small Wyoming town of Hope Springs. She is also torn between loving two very different men.

Gracelin O'Malley immigrates to America in order to escape the devastating famine in Ireland, and travels to San Francisco to meet the sea captain whose marriage proposal she accepted, but when he is not there to meet her, Gracelin is forced to accept a job with a prominent doctor and finds herself reunited with a lost love from her past.

Gracelin O'Malley sets sail from her beloved Ireland hoping to find a better life in Manhattan, where she desperately waits for news of the infant son she left behind.

Presents a novel about Six-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little sister, and mother who move into the Irish slum district of Albany, New York after his father abandons them and their struggles to survive amidst the unemployment and poverty of the depression and war years.

When Gracelin O'Malley leaves Ireland for a better life in America, she struggles to survive in the Irish tenement district which propels her to rebel against the injustices she sees around her.