The Great Famine of the 1800s increased the number of Irish immigrants to North America. This exiciting look at how the Irish first landed in North America in the 1600s includes eyewitness accounts and full-color artwork. Topics include: Christian conflicts at home, population explosion and the Great Famine, willing immigrants and indentured servants, disease on the journey, Irish laborers or "navvies" in construction, anti-Irish prejudice, religion and the Orange Lodges, music, dance, and literature, and notable North Americans of Irish ancestry.