For three years a mysterious potato blight devastated Ireland\'s clacháns, townlands, and cities.
An unimaginable hurdle confronted the seven young Bodkin siblings, only days after docking in New.
Was it the prospect of starvation, the snows of Black \'47, or the fear of typhus that made the Bodkins leave? Or was it the dream of America\'s Freedom and Opportunity that drove the family from Galway onto an Irish coffin ship known as Cushlamachree? Their destination was Brooklyn.
Nearly a million died.
For three years a mysterious potato blight devastated Ireland\'s clacháns, townlands, and cities