Ireland to North America is a story of emigration from a remote parish in Southwest Cork, focusing on a typical Irish family of the early 19th century. It describes their life in Ireland and follows their fortunes to New Brunswick, Canada, where family members learned the logging trade, then took their skills westward over the course of three generations, following the rivers and the pines, and later the railroads, into Maine, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Pacific Northwest.
Joseph A. King -- author, historian, speaker, college instructor -- the leading authority on the Donner Party until his death in 1996 at the age of 71. He was an advisor and participant in Donner Party films for The American Experience and The Real West series on television. He was also a leading authority on Irish emigration to rural America and Canada. He authored seven books and over fifty articles in journals in Canada, Ireland, England, and the United States.
