... - and so did many starving Irish. This has something to do with the fact that they were Catholics. In school we have read the book Angela's Ashes. It deals with two Irish emigrants who meet in New York - Angela and Malachy. She gets pregnant and so they have to get married. They do not have a lot of money so they live in a small ... flat in a poor neighbourhood. After short time they are a family of seven. Malachy uses all their money in bars. Then suddenly the youngest child dies. Angela can not han-dle it and they have to move back to Ireland. There after story deals with the hard ter...

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School