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From: Paul Keroack <>
Subject: Re: [IRISH-AMER] Asenath NICHOLSON visits Ireland from NY on eve ofGreat Famine mid 1840s
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:05:12 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <13bb01c7fd4d$6638b510$301ecac6@jean>

May I recommend Mr. Quinn's latest book, "Looking for Jimmy: A search for Irish America," (2007), comprising 22 essays, including the one cited below, in which he reflects upon Irish American history, asserting that the famine had lasting psychological effects upon our culture, even when unacknowledged and passed over in silence. I am reading it now.

Paul Keroack

"Jean R." <> wrote:
SNIPPET: A witness to the extent of Irish poverty was Asenath NICHOLSON, a
widowed American temperance crusader and Protestant evangelist, who arrived
from New York on the eve of the famine to distribute Bibles among the
Catholic poor and stayed to become a one-woman relief expedition. Mrs. ....

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