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Lose yourself in the pages of this exciting historical novel as you follow the adventures of Billy Gogan, an Irish orphan sent to America on the eve of the 1844 Irish Famine. Discover the dangers he faces as he lives by his wits, and does what he has to, to survive….
Billy Gogan, American by Roger Higgins is a gripping story that perfectly mixes together history, mystery, and the human element for a new look at Irish immigration in the 1800s. Of course, this isn’t your average immigration story, either. Billy Gogan …
Travel into the world of Irish immigration, starting as Billy Gogan is fleeing from the oppression of the violence in Ireland and his own father’s death. Dangers lurk everywhere, from the ship that crosses the Atlantic, to the Five Points slums he moves …
Higgins is a bare-knuckled story teller. In this brawny novel, he transports us to the hardscrabble lives of mid-1800s New York Irish immigrants. Though each day brings a new brawl for survival, under Higgins’s deft touch, the heartbeat of tenderness …