Little Ireland: An Irish Emigrant Family's Life in Nineteenth Century Edinburgh

Little Ireland tells the story of one family from County Monaghan in Ireland, who emigrated to Edinburgh in the early nineteenth century and settled in the Old Town, in the Irish ghetto of 'Little Ireland'. It is also the story of the Irish diaspora who settled there, both before and after the 'Great Famine', whose lives revolved around the church of St. Patrick in the Cowgate and it's charismatic priest, Canon Edward Hannan, who founded Hibernian Football Club. It tells of the exiled Irish...