THE FAMINE ROAD, 1847-1997 Long agonies of the road stumbled down, shades of emigrant stain the asphalt with their blood. Between the weeds where people've come for years now, one like yourself treads and sees his shoes wrapped in rope. The tangled slope is brutal, the news from home silent as a grave. Inside the marcher his days unformed lie in fallow, still awaiting word that love has won, the world become safe for hunger's urge. -- Michael Coffey "The Irish In America," ed. Michael Coffey, text Terry Golway, Hyperion Books/NY 1997. Book dedicated to parents Tom and Mary Golway and John and Eleanor Coffey