This story of Ireland revolves around famous people - Alcock and Brown, Frederick Douglass, George Mitchell, the Queen - and how they are interlinked by the lives of the Ehrlich women. It is a tale, as the title suggests, of the links between Ireland and North America. It is a tale of the calamity that has been Irish History since the Famine. It is a tale of loss, of emigration, of courage, of mourning, of quiet determination, and of hope.
