Her story is moving, sometimes disturbing, and it serves as a reminder that for many immigrants the place that they came to was better than the place they left but it was not the Promised Land that many expected it to be. Coming to America: The Story of Immigration by Betsy. Mary has many losses and trials to bear but she always tries to hope that things will get better, that her lot and that of her fellow Irish immigrants will improve with time. So Far From Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill. The American girls are given easier and safer jobs to do and they resent the Irish whose arrival in America has meant that working conditions have changed for all workers. The mill work itself is very hard and there is friction between the Irish and the 'Yankee' girls who work the machines. Mary’s sister Kate has become very proud and looks down on the Irish who work in the mills.

Thank goodness for Aunt Nora for very little else in America lives up to expectations. Still it is hard to leave the Ma and Da behind to go to a world that she knows so little about, except what her Aunt Nora has told her in her letters. Barry Denenberg Scholastic, 1990 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 116 pages 3 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified Jackie Robinson was a. : So Far From Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, An Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 (Dear America Series) (9780590926676) by Denenberg, Barry and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. The hope is that soon Mary will be able to work enough to make the money needed to pay for her parents passage to America and the family will be reunited once more.

Her parents decide that they want her to follow her aunt and her sister to America. Mary’s homeland is dying and many of her people are dying around her. 1847 by Kristiana Gregory (1997) So Far from Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 by Barry Denenberg (1997).

So Far From Home by Barry Denenberg