Amazon has had copies of my book and has been distributing them since mid-week. The title is Ballykilcline Rising / From Famine Ireland to Immigrant America (University of Massachusetts Press). ? The book is an account of the rent strikers in Ballykilcline, County Roscommon,?who were evicted in 1847 and '48 and "assisted" to New York by forced emigration. My book considers the social, economic, and political conditions in Ireland before the Famine that led to the strike and then locates a cluster of the evictees in Rutland, Vermont, and follows their lives and the community they built there for about 20 years as the marble industry boomed. Some of them, for instance, took part in labor actions in Rutland and lost their homes a second time. Some of them prospered as Vermont farmers; some of them went farther west -- to join an earlier settlement of Kilglass Parish people in LaSalle County, ILL, or to go on to the Minnesota frontier before it became a state. One family had a child kidnapped by Indians. I found evidence linking one or two men to the Fenians, who attempted to invade Canada several times during the 1860s. A number of the men fought in the Civil War. One man from Ballykilcline was a suspect in the murder of landlord Denis Mahon of Strokestown. Evidence in the story also suggests, that as their original story-teller Robert Scally (The End of Hidden Ireland) suggested, there may have been?an "underground?market" for their Crown passages across the Atlantic.?The story focuses on about a dozen families for whom mini-profiles are provided.?Rhode Island is mentioned in several places. ? Anyone who had ancestors from Famine Ireland likely will be interested in the information about conditions in both Ireland and the U.S. in the middle 19th Century. And genealogists may be interested in the records tapped to produce this story. ? Mary Lee Dunn