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Lisa Boyle

With Great Sorrow: A Civil War Story (Paddy series)

By Lisa Boyle - Published 2023

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Rosaleen and Emmet are part of a community of Irish immigrants who have come to Massachusetts seeking a better life. In late 1861, Emmet ...Read Review

Dear Inmate (Paddy series)

By Lisa Boyle - Published 2022

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Saga

In 1854 Lowell, Massachusetts, a mill town northwest of Boston, is home to many newly arriving immigrants, especially from Ireland. Unfortunately for them, the ...Read Review

Signed, A Paddy: An Irish Immigrant Story (Paddy series)

By Lisa Boyle - Published 2021

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Saga

County Cork, 1848. Rosaleen, aged 15 and the last of her family, hurriedly buries her mother’s corpse in unconsecrated ground. The potato blight compels ...Read Review