![]() Their mother ends up selling all of her belongings except for the clothes on their backs. ![]() Their father has gone to find work on the famine roads, and the children and their mother struggle each day, getting barely enough food to survive. Ten month old Bridget dies of famine fever and is buried under the hawthorn tree in the garden: in Irish mythology, the hawthorn is linked with the otherworld Ireland is in the height of The Great Hunger. The novel tells the story of three siblings, Mary Ellen (Eily), Michael and Margaret (Peggy) O'Driscoll, who live in a small cottage in their home district of Duneen. ![]() ![]() It was published by the O'Brien Press in May 1990. Under the Hawthorn Tree is a children's historical novel by Marita Conlon-McKenna, the first in her Children of the Famine trilogy set at the time of the Great Famine in Ireland. ![]()
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