The Story of 'Wee Hannah' - A Waif of the Famine, as told to her benefactor Mrs. Law.
Dunfanaghy, Donegal: The Workhouse, 1998. Pamphlet. 24p., staple-fastened pamphlet, 8x6 inches, presswork in sepia & black on clay-coated alkaline paperstock, a fine copy: sound, clean and unmarked.
Hannah Herrity lived into old age, amazingly, after a life of unremitting illness and overwork. The transcriber was married to a considerate politician.
Cat.No: 332244
Price: $20.00
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1840s,
Autobiography, Memoir,
Disease, illness,
Food,
Ireland,
labor-european,
Poor, poverty,
Women